The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession

by Edwin T. Layton and Edwin T. Layton, Jr.

Book Overview

Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. "A thoroughgoing study of the engineering profession, emphasizing,and rightly so, its accommodation to business institutions. It is a book that is suggestive, challenging, and instructive."--Technology and Culture. "First-rate."--American Historical Review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080183287X
• ISBN13: 9780801832871
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.