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The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

Abbott, Andrew

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Series: Institutions

Business GeneralLabor

ISBN10: 0226000699
ISBN13: 9780226000695
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 15 1988
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical study of the professions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America, Abbott builds a general theory of how and why professionals evolve.

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