Professions and the State: Expertise and Autonomy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

by Anthony Jones

Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of the state. The change in environment has important Implications not only for the practice of professions but also for the concept of professionalism itself. This collection of nine essays is the first to survey the major professions In the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The contributors investigate the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877228019
• ISBN13: 9780877228011
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"