Erosion and Renewal of Professional Powers in Public Sector Employment: The Role of Occupational Community.

This paper describes a case study of a particular form of knowledge worker, lawyers and their efforts to achieve collective bargaining. Within self-regulated professions like law, the professional regulatory body controls much of the labour process and defines the body of professional knowledge. App...

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Publicado en:Industrial Relations / Relations Industrielles Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 159 - 186
Autor principal: Campbell, Shelagh
Formato: Case Study
Publicado: Universite Laval, Department of Industrial Relations Winter2014
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        Lawyers
        Public sector
        Collective bargaining
        Collective action
        Public prosecutors
        Knowledge workers
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          Collective bargaining
          Collective action
          Public prosecutors
          Offices of Lawyers
          Legal Counsel and Prosecution
          Knowledge workers
          Professional employees
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        Knowledge worker
        lawyers
        professionals
        public sector
        workplace control
        abogados
        control del trabajo
        fiscales
        profesionales
        sector público
        trabajador del saber
        avocats
        contrôle du travail.
        procureurs de la Couronne
        professionnels
        secteur public
        travailleurs du savoir
        Knowledge worker
        lawyers
        professionals
        public sector
        workplace control
        abogados
        control del trabajo
        fiscales
        profesionales
        sector público
        trabajador del saber
        avocats
        contrôle du travail.
        procureurs de la Couronne
        professionnels
        secteur public
        travailleurs du savoir
      ab: This paper describes a case study of a particular form of knowledge worker, lawyers and their efforts to achieve collective bargaining. Within self-regulated professions like law, the professional regulatory body controls much of the labour process and defines the body of professional knowledge. Apprenticeships, such as clinical locums in medicine and articles in law, play an important role in the transfer of labour process norms. However, more and more professionals seek employment in large organizations where the autonomy historically enjoyed by the self-employed worker and crafted in the confines of mentorships is increasingly subject to bureaucratic and administrative controls. In large employment settings rules and policies may interfere with workers' exercise of professional discretion and full utilization of their knowledge. The result of the erosion of traditional labour process power under bureaucratic forms of organization leads professionals to seek alternate forms of control. Many turn to collective bargaining as a means to wrest back control over the application of discretionary judgment from large, often public sector, employers.
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