Professional Powers:

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Paperback white quarto. xviii, 241 pages; 23 cm Previous owner stamp on front free end paper. Light spotting to fore edge and covers. Else clean and tight copy. . Paperback. ISBN: 0226262251

Contents: Formal Knowledge, Power, and the Professions -- Identifying Professions -- The Category Profession -- Establishing Professional Positions: The Credential System -- The Position of Professionals in the Courts -- The Question of Professional Decline -- The Special Position of Professional Employees -- Professional Powers in Work Organizations -- Professions in the Political Economy -- The Institutional Transformation of Formal Knowledge. Professions -- United States -- Sociological aspects. Power (Social sciences) Occupations. Social Control, Informal.