Slaton Concrete notes

Slaton Concrete

Write an abstract/summary of this article. What is argument in 1 sentence?
- Historical perspective highlighting boundaries in engineering and engineering judgment (thinking aspect/workforce dynamics/hierarchy/innate characteristics) in the concrete industry from 1900-1930.

What are tensions and boundary work?
- Automated system vs. humanistic approach
- Tension in trying to keep engineers at top level (managers vs. laborer, white vs. blue collar)
- Hierarchical occupational vision
- Engineers purveyors of standards, but only certain people (native born middleclass white male) had the character to outline those standards
- Theory vs. cut-and-try method
- Science vs. engineering
- Gender and ethnicity
- Native born middleclass white male vs. everyone else

What would Alice say MIS is? Why?
- MIS pg. 51 “attach moral/cultural features…technical prowess…social rewards.”