The Master Spirit of the Age : : Canadian Engineers and the Politics of Professionalism / / J. Rodney Millard.
Creators of the modern industrial state, engineers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were part of a rising force or urban, middle-class experts. The vanguard of this élite, engineers embraced a vision of a new social order and believed that as society's natural leaders their...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Associations
- Introduction
- 1. 'The master spirit of the age': The engineer and his world
- 2. 'The Montreal clique': Formation of the cscE
- 3. 'A sort of outcast people': Engineers and bureaucracy
- 4. 'The foreign invasion': Engineers and competition
- 5. 'Iniquitous and impertinent' legislation: The CSCE and the politics of professionalism
- 6. In search of a 'tribal soul': The birth of the
- 7. 'The proper kind of publicity': The quest for public recognition
- 8. Contemplating the 'unthinkable': The EIC and unionism
- 9. 'A sort of trade union': The EIC and licensing
- Conclusion
- Statistical appendix
- Notes
- Note on sources
- Index