The peregrine profession : : transnational mobility of Nordic engineers and architects, 1880-1930 / / Per-Olof Grönberg

In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more than ev...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Global Social History 36/12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (372 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • A Peregrine Profession
  • The Choice of Destinations
  • To Study and to Practise in German-Speaking Europe
  • Journeymen and Traditional Emigrants to North America
  • A Worldwide Labour Market
  • Burning No Bridges Behind Them
  • Summary and Concluding Discussion
  • Back Matter
  • Appendices
  • Sources and References.