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

by Andrew Abbott

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226000699

ISBN13:9780226000695

Release Date:August 1988

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:452 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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