Scaling Up - The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession

Publisher: IChemE
Extent: Hardback, 347 pages

Chemical Engineering - as an acknowledged profession and an academic discipline - is scarcely a century old. Yet from a contested existence before the First World War, chemical engineering had become one of the 'big four' engineering professions in Britain, and a major contributor to Western economies, by the end of the twentieth century.

Drawing upon extensive archival research, this book examines the evolution of technical practice, working environment and social interactions of chemical engineering. It will be of considerable interest to historians, sociologists of the professions and to practitioners themselves.