Professionalism and Social Change

Chapter 1 Introduction: Within, Between, Beyond—A Multi-dimensional Approach to the Study of Professionalism and Social Change

Chapter 2 When Employment Status Shapes Professionalism. The Case of the Academic Labour Market in Switzerland

Chapter 3 Processes of Differentiation and Fragmentation within: South African Textile Designers

Chapter 4 Models of Professionalism and Perceptions of Gender Discrimination in the Legal Profession

Chapter 5 Are Platforms Changing Professionalism?

Chapter 6 Learning and Differentiation within Professions—The Cases of Teaching and Nursing

Chapter 7 Changing Professional Status in Evolving Professional Systems: Towards Using a Descriptive Lens to Analyse Multi-layered Transformation Processes

Chapter 8 Professionalism in Everyday Work: Women Lawyers’ Strategies to Exercise Control over Their Work in Finland, French Canada, and Poland

Chapter 9 The Professionalism, Accountability, and Work of Teachers in Different Regulatory Regimes

Chapter 10 Inequalities in Neo-mutualistic Professional Organisations: The Boundary Work of Creative Workers in Italy

Chapter 11 The Changing Nature of Profession-State Relations in Canada: The Persistence of Self-Regulation in the Context of Reform, 1960–2010

Chapter 12 Expand or Translate?: Theorising Work in Professionals’ Activism

Chapter 13 Social Media Influencers: A New Hybrid Professionalism in the Age of Platform Capitalism?

Chapter 14 Conclusions: Making Sense of Professionalism and Social Change