Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

by Matthew H. Wisnioski

Book Overview

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018268
• ISBN13: 9780262018265
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher