Engineers and Industrial Growth: Higher Technical Education and the Engineering Profession During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: France

by Gran Ahlstrm and Göran Ahlström

Using an economic-historical and comparative approach, this book, first published in 1982, studies the structure and development of the engineering profession in France, German, Sweden and England. Central issues include the number of engineers in a particular society, their education and fields of work after education, the social background of the engineer, their social standing, the role of the state in technical education, and the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032014938
• ISBN13: 9781032014937
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 116 Pages