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Guagnini, Anna

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“…Since the botanical garden had just been transferred from the medical academy to the state (not, as one might have expected, to the university), Drude was simultaneously a "regular" professor and a public servant. For the general changes within the German university landscape in this period, see Guagnini 2004; for the university in Dresden in particular, see Pommerin 2003, 79-129. He had to train future school teachers, engineers, and chemists.…”

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“…73 The Polytechnikum indeed became a full university in 1890, but I will use this term for the 1880s as well. For the general changes within the German university landscape in this period, see Guagnini 2004; for the university in Dresden in particular, see Pommerin 2003, 79-129. The best overview on the botanical institute gives, again, a necrology, Schwede 1932. expected Drude to establish the so-called "applied botany."…”

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Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870s–1910s

Güttler

2011

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ArgumentThe historiography of botanical maps has mainly concentrated on their alleged “golden age,” on maps drawn by famous first-generation plant geographers. This article instead describes botanical maps after the age of discovery, and detects both a quantitative explosion and qualitative modification in the late nineteenth century. By spotlighting the case of the plant geographer Oscar Drude (1852–1933), I argue that the dynamics of botanical mappings were closely linked to a specific milieu of knowledge production: the visual culture of Imperial Germany. The scientific upgrading of maps was stimulated by a prospering commercial cartographical market as well as a widespread practice of mediating between professionals and amateurs via maps in the public sphere. In transferring skills and practices from these “popular” fields of knowledge to scientific domains, botanists like Oscar Drude established maps as an indispensable element of botanical observation. This wholesale dissemination of botanical maps had thus a formative influence on collective perception – the botanist's “period eye” – regarding plant distribution.

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Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870s–1910s

Güttler

2011

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“…The technical high schools (Technische Hochschulen) in Germany gained doctorate-degree-granting university status in 1899. 89 MIT in the United States, whose graduates occupied executive positions of big corporations in the 1920s, reinforced liberal-arts education and experiments in laboratories, while decreasing the share of hands-on training in the curriculum. These reforms culminated in the inclusion of MIT in the league of privileged research universities, the American Association of Universities in 1934, a marker that this school was far from a vocational school for manual labor.…”

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Consolidating the Collar Line: The Professionalization of Engineering and Social Stratification in Modern Japan

Choi

2020

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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Historians have extensively explored conflicts and reconciliation between labor and management, but have hardly considered how class hierarchy took shape and persisted. This article explores the birth of class hierarchy through the lens of the Tokyo Worker School. While education bureaucrats created this school as a training ground for skilled workers, the school's educators helped their students join white-collar positions and avoid the stigma against manual labor. By tracing this process, I explain how the aspirations of educators and students alike consolidated class hierarchy and explore why the collar line persisted despite the ascent of hitherto under-valued professions, such as engineering.

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Universities and Firm Performance: Evidence from Germany

Meier

2024

German Economic Review

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This paper analyses the impact of universities on firm performance based on the universe of firms in Germany from 2013 to 2017. From a regional perspective, firms have 0.92 % more revenues per employee in counties with a university than in a county without a university. To address potential endogeneity concerns, I focus on a subsample of universities, founded for political reasons. Analysing different types of German universities indicates that the high-skilled regional labour supply is important for the positive impact of universities, while proximity to the knowledge spillovers of research-intensive universities is associated with weaker firm performance. The latter finding is at least partially explained by the networks of multinational firms.

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Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870s–1910s

Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870s–1910s

Consolidating the Collar Line: The Professionalization of Engineering and Social Stratification in Modern Japan

Universities and Firm Performance: Evidence from Germany

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