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Introduction: Lawyers, Doctors and Business Consultants

In: Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour

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  • Daniel Muzio
  • Stephen Ackroyd
  • Jean-François Chanlat

Abstract

This book presents a collection of new research papers offering accounts of three of the most important expert occupations in the Western world today: lawyers, medical doctors and business consultants.1 In this introduction, we suggest that, despite the differences in the organisation of the occupations considered and some differences of analytical focus and methodological approach adopted by the authors who write about them, it is possible to discern some general trends of contemporary development in this area. There have been, in recent decades, some striking processes to be observed in both areas of the traditional professions and new business services. It is not clear, however, that the main reasons why this is occurring have been established nor have any but the principal trends of development been convincingly identified. In this introductory chapter, we outline the detailed work contained in the chapters which follow and we use the discussion of them to cast some light on the general issue of what is happening to expert occupations.

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  • Daniel Muzio & Stephen Ackroyd & Jean-François Chanlat, 2008. "Introduction: Lawyers, Doctors and Business Consultants," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Daniel Muzio & Stephen Ackroyd & Jean-François Chanlat (ed.), Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, chapter 1, pages 1-28, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59282-7_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230592827_1
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