1st Edition
The Rise of Professionalism Monopolies of Competence and Sheltered Markets
By Magali Sarfatti Larson
Copyright 2013
345 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
345 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
I: The Organization of Professional Markets; 1: The Historical Matrix of Modern Professions; 2: The Constitution of Professional Markets; 3: An Analysis of Medicine’s Professional Success; 4: Standardization of Knowledge and Market Control; 5: Market and Anti-Market Principles; II: The Collective Conquest of Status; 6: The Collective Mobility Project; 7: Uses and Limitations of the Aristocratic Model; 8: Professional Privilege in a Democratic Society; 9: The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and the Consolidation of Professionalism; 10: Patterns of Professional Incorporation into the New Class System; 11: Profession and Bureaucracy; 12: Monopolies of Competence and Bourgeois Ideology
Biography
Magali Sarfatti Larson
