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The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.

Pamela S. Tolbert; Andrew Abbott · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1990

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Pamela S. Tolbert; Andrew Abbott
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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1990
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English

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In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical study of the professions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America, Abbott builds a general theory of how and why professionals evolve.

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Tolbert, P. S. & Abbott, A. (1990). The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393403

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Tolbert, Pamela S, and Andrew Abbott. "The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor." 1990. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393403.

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Tolbert, Pamela S. and Andrew Abbott. 1990. "The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.". https://doi.org/10.2307/2393403.

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Tolbert, P. S. and Abbott, A. 1990, The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor, Administrative Science Quarterly, available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2393403 [Accessed 8 Aug. 2026].

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Title
The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.
Author / contributors
Pamela S. Tolbert; Andrew Abbott
Publisher
Administrative Science Quarterly
Publication year
1990
Language
English

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