Publisher's Synopsis
This volume focuses on the occupational formations emerging among managerial, technical and professional groups. The broad range of these occupations is the subject of continuing debates about the changing character of management and organization, and the contributors, all active researchers in their field, explore some of the main issues currently of concern. They reflect on the processes of differential power within the complex of authority and expertise and increasingly diversified structure that managerial and professional groups represent. They examine new agendas of change as organizations restructure careers and reshape older bureaucratic forms, and as managerial and professional groups seek to control their occupational space in this changing landscape. And contributors also develop alternatives that challenge widely held views about the role of professional groups in global and class structures.
