AcknowledgementsList of TablesAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: Professional Power and Skill Use D.W. Livingstone 1 General Research Questions 2 General Context 3 General Theoretical Approach 4 Mystification of Classes and Skills 5 Changing Workplaces 6 Professional Power 7 Underemployment 8 Professional Learning 9 Research Design 10 Basic Data Sources 11 Methods of Analysis 12 Further Chapters1 The Emergent Class Structure of Professionals in Advanced Capitalist ''Knowledge Economies'' D.W. Livingstone 1 Introduction 2 The Rise of Professional Occupations with Specialised Knowledge 3 Changes in the General Distribution of Occupations 4 Basic Division of Labour in Advanced Capitalist Workplaces 5 The Changing General Employment Class Structure 6 Development of Professional Classes and Distribution of Professionals in the Class Structure 7 Professional Classes and Workplace Power: Initial Profile 8 Concluding Remarks2 Comparing Power and Working Conditions of Professional Employees and Other Employment Classes: General Levels and Trends, 1982-2016 D.W. Livingstone 1 Introduction 2 Professional Employees in the Class Structure 3 Professional Employees in the Capitalist Labour Process 4 Levels and Trends in Professional Employees'' and Other Employment Classes'' Job Control 5 Findings 6 Conclusion3 The Rise and Polarisation of Managers and Professional Managers D.W.

Livingstone 1 Introduction 2 Managerial Levels 3 The Rise of Managers 4 Situating Managers in the Class Structure 5 National Survey Findings, 1982-2016 6 The Rise of Professional Managers, "Hybridity" and Polarisation 7 The Case of Engineering Managers 8 Concluding Remarks4 Declining Power, Increasing Underemployment and Learning Challenges for Professional Employees in "Knowledge Economies" D.W. Livingstone 1 Introduction 2 Declining Relative Power of Professional Employees 3 General Changes in Working Conditions 4 Underemployment in Advanced Capitalism 5 Basic Dimensions of Underemployment 6 Contradictions of Paid Employment and Formal Education 7 Growth of Post-Secondary Completion and Credential Underemployment 8 Computer Skill Requirements and Skill Underemployment 9 Underemployment and Continuing Learning 9 Attitudes to Underemployment 10 Note on Other Professional Classes, Underemployment and Continuing Learning 11 Concluding Remarks5 Comparing Engineers, Nurses, Professionals in General and the General Labour Force: A Class Analysis of Survey Data D.W. Livingstone 1 Introduction 2 Class Structure 3 Job Qualifications and Regulatory Licensing 4 Association and Union Membership 5 Social Background Profiles 6 General Working Conditions 7 Workplace Control 8 Training and Skill Use 9 Economic Attitudes 10 Concluding Remarks6 Engineers, Skills, and Intra-Professional Inequalities Tracey L. Adams 1 Introduction 2 Changing Nature of Professional Work 3 Engineering in Canada 4 Some Methodological Details: The Engineering Case Study 5 Recent Changes to Engineering Practice in Ontario, Canada 6 Engineers at Work in Ontario: An Overview 7 Working Conditions, Authority and Autonomy 8 Skill, Knowledge, and Change over Time 9 Conclusion7 Nurses, Skills, and Intra-Professional Inequalities Edward V. Cruz and Peter H. Sawchuk 1 Introduction 2 Historical Origins of Nursing in Canada 3 Some Methodological Details: The Nursing Case Study 4 The Changing Nature of Nursing Skill, Knowledge and Work in Canada 5 Internal Divisions and Dimensions within the Profession 6 Working Conditions, Authority, and Autonomy 7 Skill, Knowledge, and Change over Time 8 Interview Findings 9 Discussion and Conclusions8 Ethical Dilemmas and Workplace Change: Nurses and Engineers Tracey L.

Adams and Peter H. Sawchuk 1 Introduction 2 Professional Ethics 3 Organisational Logics, Professional Logics and Hybridisation 4 Ethical Tensions and Professional-Managerial Hybridity 5 Survey Findings/Analysis 6 Interview Findings/Analysis 7 Discussion and ConclusionsConclusion: Waning Power, Wasted Skill D.W. Livingstone 1 General Findings 2 General Comparisons 3 Engineers and Nurses 4 Further StepsAppendix 1: List of Quoted IntervieweesAppendix 2: Regulatory Licensing Status of ProfessionalsIndex.