Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in 19th-Century England

Bernard P. Cronin

Contents: Preface; Introduction; 19th-century machine tools: the work of Maudslay, Nasmyth and Whitworth; The interaction of work and technology: the influence of F. W. Taylor and H. Braverman; Technology, changing definitions of skill and the use of child labour; Skill and the collapse of the craft apprentice system; Employers and the ideology of engineering management: the Great Strike of 1897-98 and its aftermath; Contradictions and struggle in ideas about a national system of technical education; Employers, the foundation of the City and Guilds of London Institute and government legislation; Industrial conflict and 19th-century technical and educational change; References and bibiography; Index.