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By Elliott A. Krause. 305 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1996. $37.50. ISBN 0-300-06758-5.

In this ambitious book, which crosses national boundaries and major time periods, Krause, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University, wants us to reconsider professionalization as a cross-cultural phenomenon. His thesis is that the organized power of traditional professions is slowly fading in the West. "Have capitalism and the state finally caught up with the last guilds?" he asks. The answer is explicit in the title of the book.

Krause examines the history of four professional groups in five countries — the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Germany — from medieval times through the present. The professions are medicine, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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