PROFESSIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA

In contrast to prevailing models, this paper argues that professional labor has benefited from its close integration into corporate and othe r hierarchies. Using historical case studies from law, engineering, an d accounting, we show how this relationship developed over time and ho w actors used it to build their professions. In forging close ties to large-scale organizations, professionals were largely successful in av oiding proletarianization of their work and also in maintaining a nece ssary degree of autonomy from corporate control.