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First published in 1989, this book examines the work, careers and politics of French engineers and technical workers employed in traditional and high-technology settings. In the process, it critically evaluates several theories of social change and advocates a unique approach to class theory and the comparative analysis of nations. Neither owners of productive property nor wage workers performing routinised labour. Engineers occupy an ambiguous social position that has elicited a good deal of controversy about trends in their situation and ideology. Where theories of professionalism anticipate occupationally based challenges to the legitimacy of bureaucratic authority, Marxian and neo-Marxian analyses foresee class-based opposition to capitalism. Yet all these theories share a preoccupation with the effects of technology and the division of labour on social values and group identities. This book maintains that such a preoccupation obscures the significance of career situations and the distinctively national institutions that shape them. The book presents a fresh view of the interplay of occupation, class and nation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Technical Workers in an Advanced Society
• Subtitle: The Work, Careers and Politics of French Engineers
• Author: Stephen Crawford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780521125048
• ISBN: 0521125049
• ID: 02023045
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. December 2009

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