Professional Power and Skill Use in the 'Knowledge Economy': A Class Analysis

by D.W. Livingstone

This is the first systematic analysis of the class structure of professionals. Their growing numbers, including mainly non-managerial professional employees as well as self-employed professionals, professional employers and professional managers, have been conflated in most prior studies. In this book, evidence comes from a unique series of large-scale surveys since the 1980s as well as recent comparative case studies of engineers and nurses. A primary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004463062
• ISBN13: 9789004463066
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 304 Pages