Band 20
Scaling Up The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession
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Chemists and Chemistry
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.12.2010
Abbildungen
XXVIII, 349 p.
Verlag
Springer NetherlandSeitenzahl
349
Maße (B/H)
16/24 cm
Gewicht
573 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-90-481-5606-1
Chemical engineering - as a recognised skill in the workplace, as an academic discipline, and as an acknowledged profession - is scarcely a century old. Yet from a contested existence before the First World War, chemical engineering had become one of the 'big four' engineering professions in Britain, and a major contributor to Western economies, by the end of the twentieth century.
The subject had distinct national trajectories. In Britain - too long seen as shaped by American experiences - the emergence of recognised chemical engineers was the result of professional aspirations and contingency, and shaped by a shifting ecology of institutions, firms and government. Drawing upon extensive archival research, this book examines the evolution of technical practice, working environment and social interactions of chemical engineering. It will be of considerable interest to historians, sociologists of the professions, and to practitioners themselves.
The subject had distinct national trajectories. In Britain - too long seen as shaped by American experiences - the emergence of recognised chemical engineers was the result of professional aspirations and contingency, and shaped by a shifting ecology of institutions, firms and government. Drawing upon extensive archival research, this book examines the evolution of technical practice, working environment and social interactions of chemical engineering. It will be of considerable interest to historians, sociologists of the professions, and to practitioners themselves.
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