Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright page / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Advance Praise for Professional Power and Skill Use in the 'Knowledge Economy': A Class Analysis / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Acknowledgements / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- List of Tables / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- About the Authors / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Introduction Professional Power and Skill Use / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Chapter 1 The Emergent Class Structure of Professionals in Advanced Capitalist 'Knowledge Economies' / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Chapter 2 Comparing Power and Working Conditions of Professional Employees and Other Employment Classes / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Chapter 3 The Rise and Polarisation of Managers and Professional Managers / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Chapter 4 Declining Power, Increasing Underemployment and Learning Challenges for Professional Employees in 'Knowledge Economies' / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Chapter 5 Comparing Engineers, Nurses, Professionals in General and the General Labour Force / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Chapter 6 Engineers, Skills, and Intra-Professional Inequalities / Author: Tracey L. Adams -- Chapter 7 Nurses, Skills, and Intra-Professional Inequalities / Authors: Edward V. Cruz and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Chapter 8 Ethical Dilemmas and Workplace Change / Authors: Tracey L. Adams and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Conclusion Waning Power, Wasted Skill / Author: D.W. Livingstone -- Appendix 1 List of Quoted Interviewees / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Appendix 2 Regulatory Licensing Status of Professionals / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk -- Index / Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk.

"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 focus is on issues of job control and skill utilization among these knowledge workers widely regarded as pivotal to the sustainability of knowledge economies. Professional employees in particular are found to face declining job control, diminishing use of their skills and increasing barriers to continuing learning. There are many original benchmarks here to serve as guides for further studies on professional classes, job design and training strategies in advanced capitalist economies"-- Provided by publisher.

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