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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Intro -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: Social and Political Consequences of the Academization of German Engineers in the Nineteenth Century to 1933 -- 2: The German Engineering Boom -- Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth-Century -- 2.1 The Numerical Development of the Engineering Profession in Germany -- 2.2 Causes of the German Engineering Boom: Dynamics of Economic Structural Change -- 3: Broken Professionalization: Qualifications and Professional Positions of German Engineers (Nineteenth Century to 1933) -- 3.1 The Loss of the Academic Ideal: The Competition Between Two Educational Paths |
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The Competition Between Two Educational Paths of German Engineers -- Critical Competition: The Equal Treatment of Middle School and University Graduates in Companies -- Dominance of Business Rationalities -- Technical Universities: Questionable Practical Relevance -- Engineers and Technicians -- 3.2 The Change in the Educational Profile of German Engineers -- Special Case: Chemical Industry and Chemists -- Doctorate as a Career Factor? -- Two Qualification Paths: One Competence Profile -- 3.3 The Employment Profile: On the Way to the Late Industrial White-Collar Occupation of German Engineers |
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The Public Service: The Entitlement System in Retreat -- State Control and Its Paradoxes -- 4: The Working Life of German Engineers in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: From Universal Experts to Managed Speci... -- 4.1 The Technical Experts as an Object of Industrial Dynamics: Bureaucratization and Aspirant System -- Working Conditions: Double Deprofessionalisation -- 4.2 Non-competition Clause and Inventor Protection -- The Long Struggle for Inventorś Rights -- Interim Balance: Tendencies Towards Operational-Functional Downgrading -- 4.3 Standardization Tendencies of Engineering Work |
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Development Versus Production -- Technical Fields -- The Industrial Engineer as a Real Type -- Changing Working Conditions and Cultures -- 5: The Labour Market of German Engineers: Between Economic and Social Dynamics (Nineteenth Century to 1933) -- 5.1 Allocation Patterns in Comparison -- Three Crises: 1870s, 1900s and Early 1930s -- Training Boom -- Engineering Labour Market: Externally Induced Waves or Systemic Cycles? -- Shifts in the Age Structure -- The Engineering Labour Market: Not a Closed System of Supply and Demand -- The Influence of the Bourgeois Education Markets |
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5.2 The Permanent Overcrowding Since 1902 -- Overcrowding Crisis and Social Situation of Engineers -- Causes of the Permanent Overcrowding of the Labour Market -- Engineering: The Alternative Career of the Bourgeoisie -- German Engineers in the Nineteenth Century to 1933: Salaries and Social Situation in Professional Comparison -- 6.1 Salaries in Professional Comparison -- 6.2 The Social Situation of German Engineers: Summary -- Critique of Technology and German Engineers in Modern Society (Nineteenth Century to 1933) -- 7.1 Bourgeois Critique of Technology |
| Summary |
Like no other profession engineers represent (industrial) modernity. In the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, however, the enormous numerical expansion of the profession was contrasted by comparatively unfavorable working conditions and incomes. This is particularly true for the graduate engineers, whose academization partially failed to meet industrial requirements. Can the vlkisch, right-wing political radicalization of many technical experts on the eve of the 'Third Reich' actually be fully explained by these professional-social frictions? Data on social situation, consumption, leisure time and political behaviour of engineers, other employees and academic professions, which is made available for the first time, finally reveals contours of new social milieus and the beginning of a late-modern society. This requires more complex explanatory approaches and enables general insights into the dynamics of social crises. This study of professions, inequality, and political sociology is published in English for the first time. The author Prof. Dr. Tobias Sander is full Professor of Sociology at the HAWK Hochschule fr angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Gottingen. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation |
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7.2 German Engineers Between Cultural Milieus and Social Classes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 23, 2024) |
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Engineers -- Germany -- History
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Engineering -- Germany -- History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783658417970 |
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3658417978 |
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