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Afxentiadis, D E (2010) Interpreting a major event organization's efforts to reliably manage information security risks: the case of the Athens 2004 Olympics, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Barros de Oliveira, N R (2013) A theory of coordination voids in dynamic inter-organisational relationships: a study of social housing projects in England, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Bowers, R (2019) Gendered economies of extraction: seeking permanence amidst the rubble of Bengaluru's construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Cho, Y (2000) The Korean housebuilding industry: aspects of growth, efficiency and diversification, 1980-1995, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Eccles, T S (2009) The English building industry in late modernity: an empirical investigation of the definition, construction and meaning of profession, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Morton, C N (1979) Collective bargaining in building and civil engineering: a case study of three major re-development protects in the City of London, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Stephenson, J (2015) The organisation of work and wages in the London building trades in the long eighteenth century, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Thiel, D J (2005) Builders: the social organisation of a construction site, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Watson, H B (1975) Organizational bases of professional status: a comparative study of the engineering profession, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: professionalism; apprenticeship; civil engineer; professional; culture; education
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- URL: http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3992/
- Abstract:
British engineers have a lower status than practitioners of other British professions, engineers in other industrialized and developing societies, and than the Victorian Civil engineer. Explanations of this problem in terms of variables specific to British society and culture: are found inadequate, and an explanation is advanced that stresses the role played by the occupational group in determining its own status. Professions are more or less effectively organized for the collective pursuit and legimation of status. The historical development of the engineering profession in its British peculiarity resulted in a fragmented structure of organization by means of which speciality groups attempted to usurp the status of established practitioners, leading to mutual denigration and non-recognition, which eventually undermined the basis and questioned the legitimacy of engineering professionalism. while the British profession differs from some school-based ones such as the French and German in its relationship to the educational system, it is not peculiar in that respect, and the control exerted by the British profession over education and entry by means of pupilage and apprenticeship would normally have enhanced ... (continues)