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

by Edwin T. Layton Jr.

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.

Genres: Politics

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

The son of a U.S. naval officer, Edwin T. Layton, Jr. was president of the Society for the History of Technology and a professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota from 1975 until his retirement in 1998. He earned his BA (1950), MA (1953), and Ph.D. (1956) in history from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Clayton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice account of engineers' pursuit of autonomy from corporate interests during the Progressive Era.