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This book guides the reader in discovering contemporary professions and the critical changes they have lived through after the post-industrial transformation of advanced capitalist societies. Two interrelated concepts are used to interpret what is happening in professional work: differentiation, namely the set of processes by which professions and professionalism have become more diverse, and heterogeneity, the outcomes of such processes.
A novel analytical framework delves into differentiation and understands heterogeneity based on three dimensions: within (how professions are structured internally), between (how professions distinguish themselves from other occupations and from each other), and beyond (how professions govern societal changes and influence differentiation processes). The book presents a collection of studies covering different countries and professions to demonstrate the analytical potential of the within-between-beyond model. The conclusions show how "neo-liberal" professionalism is putting the very idea of collegiate professions at stake while exposing emerging professions to market risks.
Chapters 1 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- Part 1.- 2. When Employment Conditions Rule Professionalism. The Case of the Academic Profession in Switzerland, Pierre Bataille, Nicky Le Feuvre, and Marie Sautier.- 3. Exploring Heterogeneity Within South African Textile Designers, Debby Bonnin.- 4. Varieties of Professionalism and Perceptions of Discrimination in the Legal Professions, Valeria Insarauto, Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Grégoire Mallard, Eléonore Lépinard, and Nicky Le Feuvre.- 5. Platform Labour: A New Layer of Differentiation Within Professions?, Ivana Pais, Davide Arcidiacono, and Giorgio Piccitto.- 6. Public Sector Reform and Differentiation Within Professions, by Karolina Parding and Anna Berg Jansson.- part 2.- 7. Changing Professional Practices in Evolving Professional Systems: The Case of French Doctors and Engineers in Quebec, Jean-Luc Bédard, Marta Massana Macià, and Christophe Groulx.- 8. Doing Professionalism in Everyday Work: The Female Lawyers' Strategies to Exercise Control Over Their Work in Finland, French Canada, and Poland, Marta Choroszewicz.- 9. Examining Teacher Professionalism Under Test-Based Accountability Regimes: A Realist Synthesis, Natalie Browes, Marcel Pagès, Lluís Parcerisa, and Antoni Verger.- 10. Regulating the Labour Market for Professionals: A Case of "Smart" Organization, Valeria Pulignano, Silvia Lucciarini, and Luisa De Vit.- Part 3.- 11. The Changing Nature of Profession-State Relations in Canada: The Struggle for Self-Regulation in Increasingly Hostile Social Environments, Tracey Adams.- 12. Tools and Targets of Activist Professionals: Theorizing Work in Professional Movements, Joris Gjata, Matthew Rowe, and Shawhin Roudbari.- 13. The Knowledge Society and the Emergence of New Professional Groups-A Case from Portugal, by Teresa Carvalho.- 14. Professions and Trust in Sweden. Alterations of Trust in Professional Work and Institutions inRecent Decades, Lennart Svensson and Kerstin Svensson.- Conclusions.
