1st Edition

Key Profession The History of the Association of University Teachers

By Harold Perkin Copyright 1969
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1969 Key Profession looks at the rise of the academic profession to its influence and importance, through the history of the Association of the University of Teachers, founded in 1919 and celebrating its half-centenary in 1969. As a study of a professional organization and political pressure group concerned with salary negotiations, conditions of service, academic... Read more

1. The Demise and Resurrection of a Profession

2. The Foundation of the A.U.T.

3. An Amateur Professional Body, 1919-39

4. The War and Reconstruction, 1939-54

5. A Professional Professional Body, 1954-69

6. The Academic Profession in Professional Society

Appendices

1. Officers of the A.U.T., 1919-69

2. Growth Membership, 1919-69

3. Sample Survey of the Profession, 1968

Index

Biography

Harold Perkin