Professor Harold Perkin: 2 books
The Rise of Professional Society
England Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based...
The Third Revolution
Professional Elites in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also...