I Would Rather Grow in India The Emerging Legal Underclass

We expect professional work to be autonomous, collegial, and independent and to involve interesting, challenging, customized, and individualized work that serves a broader public purpose. However, powerful forces are reshaping professional work, making it more like other types of work. Professionals...

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Published inCheaper by the Hour p. 159
Main Author Brooks, Robert A
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Temple University Press 04.03.2011
Subjects
Administrative law
Applied sciences
Attorneys
Bar associations
Business
Business structures
Commercial regulation
Communications
Computer engineering
Computer science
Computer software
Computer technology
Corporate regulation
Economic disciplines
Economic regulation
Economics
Employment
Industrial sectors
Industry
Information technology
Jurisprudence
Labor
Labor economics
Labour economics
Law
Lawyer client communication
Legal ethics
Legal practice
Legal professionals
Legal services
Occupations
Physical anthropology & ethnography
Professional associations
Professional communication
Service industries
Social sciences
Sociology: work & labour
Statutory law
Temporary labor
Workforce
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Summary:We expect professional work to be autonomous, collegial, and independent and to involve interesting, challenging, customized, and individualized work that serves a broader public purpose. However, powerful forces are reshaping professional work, making it more like other types of work. Professionals are becoming proletarianized and losing ideological autonomy as they are absorbed into hierarchical organizations. Professional work is becoming more insecure and, in some areas, is also being degraded. Just as craft work was deskilled and brought under management control, digital technologies are now allowing some aspects of professional work to become more routinized, controlled, and intensified. Some professional work
ISBN:9781439902851
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