List of tables List of figures Preface Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Emulation: Bildung and the Bureaucratic Order: 1. technical education and society before 1850 2. Nationalism, industrialization, and technology: the first years of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure 3. The pursuit of Bildung: Grashof and the VDI, 1856-76 4. The reform of technical education in Prussia, 1876-9 Part II. Reorientation: industrial capitalism and a 'practical' profession: 5. Reorientation in the engineering industry, 1876-84 6. Crisis and renewal in the VDI, 1877-90 7. The rebirth of nonacademic engineering education, 1879-1901 8. Public authority, private power, and the production of engineering personnel, 1901-14 Part III. The crucible: technical careers and managerial power, 1900-14: 9. Career prospects and the Btib's reform efforts 10. The unified employment code and the Patent Law 11. Direct action 12. The reaction of the VDDI Epilogue Appendix Bibliographical note Index.
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