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Doing engineering : the career attainment and mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American engineers / Joyce Tang.
LIBRA TA157 .T363 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tang, Joyce, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineers--Employment--United States.
- Engineers.
- Engineers--Employment.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2000]
- Summary:
- The first to systematically compare Caucasians, African Americans, and Asian Americans in engineering, this study of the career attainment and mobility of engineers in the United States tells how these three groups fare in the American engineering labor market and what they can look forward to in the future.
- Contents:
- 1 The Rise of the Engineering Profession 1
- What Is Engineering? 3
- The World according to Enginees 4
- The Making of a Profession 5
- Engineering in Modern Times 6
- Engineers in the Shadow 8
- 2 Trends in Participation and Profile of Engineers 15
- Why So Few Women in Engineering? 16
- Who Is Filing the Gap? 18
- Recent Trends in Participation 20
- An Increasingly Diverse Engineering Workforce? 25
- Coming to America 32
- Why So Few Blacks but So Many Asians in Engineering? 33
- A Statistical Profile 36
- 3 Theoretical Approaches to Stratification in Engineering 49
- Universalism versus Particularism 51
- Human Capital 53
- Labor Market Discrimination 56
- Assimilation 61
- Structuralism 65
- 4 Getting In: Engineers for Hire 69
- Employment Trends 69
- Employment Statuses 75
- Employment and Utilization 79
- Degree and Pattern of Utilization 88
- 5 Fitting In: Professional Identity and Commitment 101
- Professionalization of American Engineers 101
- Identity and Commitment 109
- Why Study Professional Identity and Professional Commitment? 109
- Measuring Professional Commitment 112
- The Ideology of Professionalism 113
- The Ideology of Management 115
- Independent Profession 116
- Heterogeneity 117
- Do Engineers Have a Professional Identity? 118
- Implications 135
- 6 Beyond Engineering: Crossing Over the Drawing Board 139
- Why Study Management in Engineering? 139
- Management versus Technical Work 140
- Why Do People Want to Move from Engineering to Management? 141
- Why Engineers Don't Want to Be Managers? 143
- Trusted Worker 144
- Work Segregation 145
- Affirmative Action 147
- Reverse Discrimination/Diversity 148
- Management 149
- Glorified Managers 156
- Disillusioned Engineers 156
- R&D Technical Work 157
- Implications 157
- 7 Track Switching and Backtracking: The (Un)making of a Manager 163
- What Is Track Switching? 163
- What Is Backtracking? 164
- Why Some Engineers Switch Track while Others Don't? 166
- Why Do Engineers Backtrack? 168
- Engineering as a "Hybrid" Career 170
- Advancement versus Mobility 171
- Power versus Expertise 173
- Tracking Switching 175
- Backtracking 186
- Implications 190
- 8 Conclusion: The Future of Engineers in Engineering and Management 197
- Policy Making 201
- Theoretical Development 204
- Research on Stratification and Mobility 206
- Engineers and Engineering 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 084769464X
- 0847694658
- OCLC:
- 42462866
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