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Engineering Labour : Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective, Paperback / softback Book

Engineering Labour : Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective Paperback / softback

Edited by Peter Meiksins, Chris Smith

Paperback / softback

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Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise.

What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts.

The book includes case studies of engineers in six major industrial economies: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, Britain and the United States.

Through a comparison of these six cases, the authors develop an approach to national differences which both retains the place of historical diversity in the experience of capitalism and accommodates the forces of convergence from increasing globalisation and economic integration.

Contributions from: Boel Berner, Stephen Crawford, Kees Gispen, Kevin McCormick and Peter Whalley.

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