Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Established Professions and New Expert Occupations

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
1 Introduction: Lawyers, Doctors and Business Consultants......Page 16
Part I: Developments in the Legal Profession......Page 44
2 Change in the Legal Profession: Professional Agency and the Legal Labour Process......Page 46
3 Partnership and Professionalism in Global Law Firms: Resurgent Professionalism?......Page 67
4 Developments in the Jurisdictions of In-House Legal Advisors: Researching the Australian Experience......Page 90
Part II: Interpreting Change in Contemporary Medicine......Page 114
5 Medicine, Nursing and Changing Professional Jurisdictions in the UK......Page 116
6 Organization and Subjectivity in the US Medical Profession: Physician Responses to Structural Changes within Advanced Capitalism......Page 133
7 Community, Market, and Hierarchy in the Evolving Organization of Professional Work: The Case of Medicine......Page 154
Part III: New Expert Labour: Management Consultancy and Related Occupations......Page 176
8 From Taylorism as Product to Taylorism as Process: Knowledge-Intensive Firms in a Historical Perspective......Page 178
9 Knowledge Narratives and Heterogeneity in Management Consultancy and Business Services......Page 198
10 \'Give Professionalization a Chance!\' Why Management Consulting May Yet Become a Full Profession......Page 219
11 The New Professionals: Professionalisation and the Struggle for Occupational Control in the Field of Project Management......Page 232
References......Page 250
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