Scientists in Industry [antikvár]

Foreword Rapid growth in the number of salaried professional workers is one of the striking features of a mature industrial society. Indeed, in the United States, since the mid-1950's, the professional and technical group is the only occupational category that has displayed any appreciable increase in relative size. Estimates of future occupational changes indicate that the most pronounced increase in employment will continue to occur among professional workers. Many of the implications of this significant development have as yet received very little study. Does the professional worker tend to become management-oriented when he joins a research group in a large corporation, or does he retain a strong sense of identification with his professional colleagues wherever they are employed? Do his most valued rewards come in the form of salary increases and promotions or in the right to pursue his professional interests, to use and develop his professional skills, and to acquire a distinguished reputation within his profession? How effectively, and by what metihiods, do professiond organizations and unions of professional workers protect the interests of their members? To what extent is rapid technological progress in the United States attributable to the manner in which American