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Book Reviews and Notes : Professional Powers. Eliot Freidson. 1986. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 241 pages. Index. ISBN 0-226-26224-3. Hard cover $20.00

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the institutions that sustains the professions, links them to organizations and governments, and provides opportunities for exercising power. It establishes a base for tracing the sources and and means of professional power and focuses on the institutions that provide intellectual workers with their knowledge, a regular living, organized political resources and other means to translate formal knowledge into human creativity. It reveals the special position of professionals in the courts and in labor law and assesses the role of professional associations in legislation and executive and staff positions in government and on committees which provide technical advice about public policy or establishes national product and service standards. The myth of the self-employed professional and the idea of a professional class and the managerial status of professional employees is examined.