The Engineer in Industry in the 1960's
Author: National Society of Professional Engineers. Engineer-in-Industry Committee
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Society of Professional Engineers. Engineer-in-Industry Committee
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012-10-19
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0262018268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society—influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford—began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature—and not from engineering's failures. “Sociotechnologists” were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Economic and Statistical Studies
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 728
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 484
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers S. 3141, to amend the Postal Field Service Pay Act of 1958 to make permanent the temporary postal field service employees pay increase. Includes discussion of Federal pay structure and need for general pay increase for Federal employees.