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- Explores how the actual and perceived conditions for professional work has changed over the last three decades
- Examines how the professions are actively trained, selected, recruited, and managed in the era of investor capitalism
- Discusses professional work in the context of the changing contemporary economy and how this will affect the future of work
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as “knowledge-intensive work,” is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime of what has been called “investor capitalism” and under the influence of shareholder primacy governance, professional work is put under pressure to change. The author explores issues of increased financial and economic volatility, the pressure to outsource and offshore professional work and the increased supply of competitors with tertiary education degrees in the labour market. Examining both macroeconomic conditions and policy that inform and shape the domain of professional work, the book emphasises how the nature of professional work has changed since the 1980s and 1990s and argues that it is no longer a “safe haven” for a favoured group of elite workers. Precarious Professional Work underlines how the study of professions must constantly accommodate new economic conditions and managerial practices to better understand how professional work is dependent on and entangled with external social, economic, and political conditions.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Alexander Styhre
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precarious Professional Work
Book Subtitle: Entrepreneurialism, Risk and Economic Compensation in the Knowledge Economy
Authors: Alexander Styhre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59566-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59565-8Published: 07 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86652-9Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59566-5Published: 07 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 254
Topics: Organization, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Knowledge Management, Human Resource Management, Business Strategy/Leadership