{"product_id":"new-profession-old-order-engineers-and-german-society-1815-1914-hardback-9780521371988","title":"New Profession, Old Order; Engineers and German Society, 1815–1914 (Hardback) 9780521371988","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Profession, Old Order\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEngineers and German Society, 1815–1914\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exploration of the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKees Gispen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521371988, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 January 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.647 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Studies of professionalization tend to be success-oriented accounts of the rise of expert groups to social dominance.  Gispen's analyses of engineering provides a refreshing contrast in tackling what amounted to a failed profession....Gispen shows that engineers remained fragmented with various competing groupings....He does provide a finely crafted and intellectually sophisticated analysis of professionalization in a distinctive political context, and opens challenging new perspectives for historians interested in education and the social repercussions of German industrialization.\"   Paul Weindling, German History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNew Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological accomplishments would seem to have warranted. On the one hand, engineers were agents of modern instrumental rationality, specialization, practical knowledge, and entrepreneurial capitalism - forces antiasthetical to the quasi-aristocratic world of Bildung and bureaucracy that was the life blood of the preindustrial social hierarchy. On the other hand, it was this latter universe in which engineers had to survive and by whose standards they were judged for membership in the educated middle class or for access to prestigious careers. The result was an orientation that combined the old and the new in ways that were at once uniquely German and paradigmatic for modern industrial society.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Emulation: Bildung and the Bureaucratic Order: 1. technical education and society before 1850\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nationalism, industrialization, and technology: the first years of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure\u003cbr\u003e 3. The pursuit of Bildung: Grashof and the VDI, 1856–76\u003cbr\u003e 4. The reform of technical education in Prussia, 1876–9\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Reorientation: industrial capitalism and a 'practical' profession: 5. Reorientation in the engineering industry, 1876–84\u003cbr\u003e 6. Crisis and renewal in the VDI, 1877–90\u003cbr\u003e 7. The rebirth of nonacademic engineering education, 1879–1901\u003cbr\u003e 8. Public authority, private power, and the production of engineering personnel, 1901–14\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The crucible: technical careers and managerial power, 1900–14: 9. Career prospects and the Btib's reform efforts\u003cbr\u003e 10. The unified employment code and the Patent Law\u003cbr\u003e 11. Direct action\u003cbr\u003e 12. The reaction of the VDDI\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical note\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007147331864,"sku":"9780521371988","price":55.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521371988i_a55a00b1-600f-4503-b03f-9ff1c7e14bc8.jpg?v=1691375974","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-profession-old-order-engineers-and-german-society-1815-1914-hardback-9780521371988","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}