Production Values
futures for professionalism
The essays in this collection draw on examples from across the public sector and beyond to explore the challenges professionals and citizens face and where their conversations might lead. They provide practical examples of how their encounters might help citizen autonomy and professional autonomy to grow together.
Professionals are at the heart of our everyday lives. We give professionals the licence to split up families and we send people to prison on their word. In the constitution of everyday life, the distinction between professionals and amateurs is more important than that between church and state.
However, there is a danger that professionalism is outgrowing its own legitimacy. Why are doctors able to deny people the right to die? What gives judges the right to interpret human rights? Government’s ability to help resolve this legitimacy problem is crippled by its own schizophrenic approach. It is torn between depending on professionals as selfless experts or attacking them as producer interests.
We need new ways to resolve this tension, improving services through better conversation rather than greater confrontation.
Download Individual Chapters:
Introduction:
01 - Production Values: Building shared autonomy - John Craig
Learning From Professionals:
02 - The New Cultural Professionals - Sam Jones
03 - The Activist Police Force - Charlie Edwards
04 - The Career Planning Professional - John Craig
05 - The Lead Professional in Children's Services - Estelle Morris and Keith Brumfitt
06 - The Plan is Dead; Long Live the Planner - Peter Bradwell and Inderpaul Johar
07 - Towards DIY Professionalism: Stress in the teaching profession - John Craig
Professional Innovation:
08 - Journalism is Itself a Religion (and the Faith is Being Tested) - Jay Rosen
09 - Tomorrow's Workers, Yesterday's Trades - Tom Wilson
10 - Governance and the Analytic Institution - Helen Morgan
11 - Promoting the Global Accountancy Professional - Allan Blewitt
12- Double Devolution: How to put the amateurs in charge - Nick Aldridge and Astrid Kirchner
13 - Professionals in Partnership - Laura Empson
14 - Overly Controlled or Out of Control? Management Consultants and the New Corporate Professionalism - Matthias Kipping, Ian Kirkpatrick and Danel Muzio
Futures for Professionalism:
15 - The Profession of Public Service - Michael Bichard
16 - Production By the Masses: Professionals and postindustrial public services - Charles Leadbeater
17 - Gender and Professionalism - Hilary De Lyon
18 - Strengthening Professionalism: Ethical Competence as a path towards the public good - Andy Friedman
19 - Good Work and Professional Work - Richard Reeves and Jon Knell
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