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

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Author / Creator:Grönberg, Per-Olof, author.
Imprint:Leiden : Brill, [2019]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Studies in global social history ; volume 36
Studies in global migration history ; volume 12
Studies in global social history ; v. 36.
Studies in global migration history ; v. 12.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11809885
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ISBN:9789004385207
9004385207
9004366474
9789004366473
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 7, 2018).
Summary:In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Groenberg 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.
Other form:Print version: GRNBERG, PER-OLOF. PEREGRINE PROFESSION. [Place of publication not identified] : BRILL, 2018 9004366474