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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grönberg, Per-Olof.

Series:

Studies in Global Social History 36/12.

Studies in Global Migration History ; v. 36/12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandinavia.

Engineers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

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 every second graduate went abroad. Transnational mobility was stronger from Finland and Norway than from Denmark and Sweden, partly because of slower industrialisation and deficiencies in the domestic technical education. This mobility included all parts of the world but concentrated on the leading industrial countries in German speaking Europe and North America. Significant majorities returned and became agents of technology transfer and technical change. Thereby, these mobile graduates also became important for Nordic industrialisation

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38520-7

OCLC:

1048936554

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004385207 DOI