Professional Work

Current challenges to the legitimacy of expert knowledge has caused professional control over knowledge, autonomy at work, orientation toward public service, and social status to have declined. In this collection, scholars examine the nature of these changes and how they have altered the experience of professional workers.

About the author

Elizabeth H. Gorman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on gender and race-based workplace inequality and on professional and expert work.
Steven P. Vallas is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University in Boston. His research is concerned with the transformation of work, struggles over new technologies, and responses to the demands of the new economy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elizabeth Gorman (Editor), Steven P. Vallas (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2020
• EAN: 9781800432116
• ISBN: 978-1-80043-211-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 538 g
• Series: Research in the Sociology of W
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous