{"product_id":"professional-work-knowledge-power-and-social-inequalities-9781800432116","title":"Professional Work: Knowledge, Power and Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe professions have undergone massive changes in recent decades, as globalization, information technology, bureaucratization and market competition have begun to envelop even the most prestigious occupations in contemporary societies. Ironically, at a time when expert knowledge has grown increasingly important, the 'golden age' of the professions has receded into the past.  Professional autonomy, authority, and ethics are all under siege, and even their claims to exclusive control of knowledge face challenges on multiple fronts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 34 of \u003ci\u003eResearch in the Sociology of Work \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the professions are faring in this changed world, shedding new light on a field that has long been at the center of social science thinking about the economy, the state, and social order. Chapters in this volume explore a series of questions that are vital to modern life, such as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow has increased control by employers and clients altered the experience of work for professionals?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat are the new bases of professional status?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow are underrepresented groups faring within the professions?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do professionals respond to precarity and unemployment?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction; \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Gorman and Steven Vallas \u003c\/i\u003eThematic Papers  Chapter 2: Professional Engagement in Articulation Work: Implications for Experiences of Clinical and Workplace Autonomy; \u003ci\u003eJane S. VanHeuvelen \u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 3: The Intimate Dance of Networking: A Comparative Study of the Emotional Labors of Young American and Danish Jobseekers; \u003ci\u003eSabina Pultz and Ofer Sharone\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 4: Teaching on Contract: Job Satisfaction Among Non-Tenure-Track Faculty; \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Klainot-Hess\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 5: Education and Referrals: Parallel Mechanisms of White and Asian Hiring Advantage in a Silicon Valley High Technology Firm; \u003ci\u003eKoji Chavez \u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 6: Skill Development Practices and Racial-Ethnic Diversity in Elite Professional Firms;\u003ci\u003e Elizabeth H. Gorman and Fiona M. Kay \u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 7: Professional Impurities; \u003ci\u003eSida Liu\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 8: Measured Success: Knowledge, Power, and Inequality in the Professional Work of Evaluation; \u003ci\u003eElisa Martínez, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Timothy Sacco \u003c\/i\u003e Papers at Large  Chapter 9: Labor, Lifestyle, and the “Ladies Who Lunch”: Work and Worth Among Elite Stay at Home Mothers; \u003ci\u003eJussara do Santos Raxlen and Rachel Sherman\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 10:Manufacturing Discontent:  The Labor Process, Job Insecurity and the Making of “Good” and “Bad” Workers; \u003ci\u003eMartha Crowley, Julianne Payne, and Earl Kennedy \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412770333015,"sku":"9781800432116","price":94.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/professional-work-knowledge-power-and-social-inequalities-9781800432116","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}