Title The rise of professional society : England since 1880 / Harold Perkin.

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London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 604 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 520-577) and index.
Contents	Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to the 2002 edition; Preface to the first edition; The meaning of professional society; Class versus hierarchy; Professional rivalries and the state; The culmination of the Industrial Revolution; The zenith of class society; The height of inequality; The climacteric of British capitalism; The decline of Liberal England; The fear of the poor; A segregated society; The riven middle class; Lives apart: the remaking of the working class; Class society and the professional ideal; Professionalism and property; The defence of property.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Professions -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Professions.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Professions -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Professions -- England -- Sociological aspects.
	Social classes -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Social classes.
	Social classes -- England -- History -- 20th century.
	England -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Social conditions.
	England -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Perkin, Harold James. Rise of professional society. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415301785 (DLC) 2002068329 (OCoLC)50333910
ISBN	0585461430 (electronic book)
	9780585461434 (electronic book)
	9781134416813 (electronic book)
	1134416814 (electronic book)
	0203408624
	9780203408629
	0415301785
	9780415301787

Title The rise of professional society : England since 1880 / Harold Perkin.

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