Engineering Labour keyword-essays Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Across China

What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society

and his analysis of Reaganite oedipality in Back to the Future

psycho-cybernetics

Engineering Labour keyword-essays Masha GessenEngineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The book includes case studies of engineers in six major industrial economies: