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The revolt of the engineers: social responsibility and the American engineering profession

Edwin T. Layton
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the 1986 Edition (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xix)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xxii)
  • 1. The Engineer and Business (page 1)
  • 2. The Evolution of a Profession (page 25)
  • 3. The Ideology of Engineering (page 53)
  • 4. The Politics of Status (page 79)
  • 5. The Revolt of the Civil Engineers (page 109)
  • 6. Measuring the Unmeasurable: Scientific Management and Reform (page 134)
  • 7. Morris L. Cooke: The Engineer as Reformer (page 154)
  • 8. "The Engineering Method Personified": Herbert Hoover and the Federated American Engineering Societies (page 179)
  • 9. The Return to Normalcy, 1921-1929 (page 201)
  • 10. Depression and New Deal: The Engineers' Ideology in Decline (page 225)
  • Epilogue: The Rise of Scientific Professionalism (page 249)
  • Bibliographic Essay (page 254)
  • Index (page 271)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 58.4 (Mar. 1972): 1037-1038 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1917903
TC 13.1 (Jan. 1972): 100-104 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3102678
TC 27.4 (Oct. 1986): 835-836 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3105332
AHR 80.2 (Apr. 1975): 476 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1850651
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Published: c1986
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801832871 (paper)
  • 9780801832864 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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