Drawings That Changed Work
Practical Engineering in Industrial Britain
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Beschreibung
On paper, a line could look certain; on the ground, it had to contend with material, money, and people.
A technical drawing could reshape a factory floor, a river crossing, or the daily labor of thousands. Focusing on practical engineering in industrial Britain, this book follows the people and institutions that turned calculation into durable systems. It explores workshops, offices, construction sites, professional associations, and the hard lessons of breakdowns and delay. The story restores attention to engineering as a social practice: dependent on skill, negotiation, finance, maintenance, and workers who had to live with the results.
Autor*in
Hollis Parr
A union organizer turned writer who fought for rights firsthand, combining self-help advocacy tools, business ethics on fair labor, and histories of worker uprisings across centuries.
Themen in »Drawings That Changed Work«
industrial Britain engineers engineering drawings history nineteenth century infrastructure factory technology history railway engineering Britain technical professions history