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

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

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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grönberg, Per-Olof (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, [2019]
Series:Studies in global social history ; v. 36.
Studies in global migration history ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Engineers > Scandinavia.
Architects > Scandinavia.
Labor mobility > Scandinavia.
Return migration > Scandinavia.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Civil > General.
Architects
Engineers
Labor mobility
Return migration
Scandinavia
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Table of 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.

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