The unfree professions : German lawyers, teachers, and engineers, 1900-1950 / Konrad H. Jarausch.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-334) and index.

Professionalization German style -- The German concept of profession -- Professions in Imperial Germany -- Neocorporate professionalism -- Professions in crisis. Democratizing the professions -- The challenge of reform -- Structural and ideological constraints -- Interest group professionalism -- Regaining professional stability. The price of normalcy -- Professions and politics -- Toward republican professionalism -- The breakdown of liberal professionalism -- The impact of the Great Depression -- The rise of Nazi alternatives -- Collapse of interest republicanism -- Professionals as accomplices. The illusion of reprofessionalization -- Compulsion of self-coordination? -- Restoring professional authority -- From nationalist to Nazi professionalism -- "Germanizing" the professions -- Nazification of personnel and practice -- The spoils of collaboration -- Abnormal Nazi normality -- Deprofessionalization in the Third Reich -- Professions at war -- The warping of professionalism -- Professionalism instrumentalized -- Perils of professionalism -- Rebuilding the professions -- The travails of German practitioners -- Professionals and liberty -- Appendix A. Statistical tables with Eric John Yonke -- Appendix B. A note on sources with Ingrid Rehm Richards.