What gave rise to our modern conceptions of professional status,
and how did particular professions gain their privileged status?
Magali Sarfatti Larson shows how our present conception and
acceptance of profession was shaped in the liberal phase of
capitalism.
Larson argues that professionalization was both a response to
the extension of market relations and a movement for the conquest
of collective social status by sectors of the bourgeoisie. By
comparing the development of various professions in England and the
United States during the first part of the nineteenth century, the
author gives concrete historical illustration to the multiple
relations professions form within their society.
Larson examines the new conditions of professionalization in the
phase of corporate capitalism, drawing on a number of historical
and sociological sources. While professions began as a mode of
autonomous work organization, many credentialed occupations aspire
to professionalize in order to shelter the labor markets in which
they work. Larson argues that the idea of profession can function
as a form of ideological control and concludes that today
professionalism works against many of the values that had been
historically vested in it. This classic book, complete with a new
introduction that brings the work into the twenty-first century, is
timely and should be read by all interested in the history and
development of organizational life.
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