How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability.The growing movement toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) urges corporations to promote the well-being of people and the planet rather than the sole pursuit of profitIn Extracting Accountability, Jessica Smith investigates how the public accountability of corporations emerges from the everyday practices of the engineers who work for them. Focusing on engineers who view social responsibility as central to their profession, she finds the corporate context of their work prompts them to attempt to reconcile competing domains of accountabilityto formal guidelines, standards, and policies; to professional ideals; to the public; and to themselves.Their efforts are complicated by the distributed agency they experience as corporate actors: they are not always authors of their actions and frequently act through others.            Drawing on extensive interviews, archiva