The German Experience of Professionalization : Modern Learned Professions and Their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. The Problem of Professions in Germany: 1. Introduction; 2. Problems and methods in the history of modern German professions; Part II. The Transition to Modern Professions in the Early Nineteenth Century: 3. The beginnings of modern professions in Germany; 4. Professions between revolution and unification; Part III. Unified Professions in a Unified Germany?; 5. The organization of the 'free' professions: medicine, law, engineering, and chemistry; 6. Organization of state-service professions: teachers and the clergy; 7. Professional credentials in the new Reich; Part IV. Breakthrough and Breakdowns: The Professions Enter the Era of Cartels and Unions: 8. The 'free' professions, 1900?1918; 9. Law-based professions, 1900?1918; Part V. The Weimar era: 10. The 'free' professions under Weimar; 11. Professions based on law and pedagogy in the Weimar era; Part VI. The Fate of Professions Under and After Fascism: 12. Collaboration, coordination, and professionalization; 13. Conclusion; A word about sources; Index.