Show/Hide Menu
Hide/Show Apps
anonymousUser
Logout
Türkçe
Türkçe
Search
Search
Login
Login
OpenMETU
OpenMETU
About
About
Open Science Policy
Open Science Policy
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Communities & Collections
Communities & Collections
Azerbaijani Engineers in the Global Economy: Transnational Professionals Versus "Button-Pushers"
Date
2018-06-01
Author
Ergun Özbolat, Ayça
Ergun, Ayca
Metadata
Show full item record
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
.
Item Usage Stats
3
views
0
downloads
This article examines the changes in the engineering profession in Azerbaijan after the inflow of foreign investment into Azerbaijan's oil industry since 1990s. The integration of Azerbaijan's oil industry into global economy has led to a significant reshaping of the engineering profession, both within and outside of the oil industry. Multinational companies, which have been the main agents of this integration, have introduced advanced technologies and helped many Azerbaijani engineers to gain access to the international labor market, often serving as credentializing institutions. At the same time, the presence of these multinational companies have also opened the way for new inequalities. They have indirectly created an important division within the engineering professiona division between internationally mobile engineers from the oil industry and engineers in other industries. Outside of the oil industry, engineering work has in many cases been reduced to routine tasks of assembly and operations, while research, design, and manufacturing were made redundant in the context of the oil-driven development promoted by Azerbaijan's government.
Subject Keywords
Azerbaijan
,
Post-Soviet
,
Oil industry
,
Engineering profession
,
Multinational companies
,
New technology
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36762
Journal
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPING SOCIETIES
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796x18767993
Collections
Department of Sociology, Article