From Progressivism to Engineering Studies: Edwin T. Layton’s The Revolt of the Engineers

The classic book The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession (1971), by Edwin T. Layton Jr., still holds a prominent place in the historiography of technology and engineering. But its interpretation of professionalization has been revised and extended beyond the historiographic concerns of postwar scholarship on the progressive era by recent scholarship on class, gender, and politics in a new field called “engineering studies.”