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

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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.