Tasks, stratification and occupational change : evidence from the legal profession

The organization of professional work-that of lawyers, doctors, and accountants, among others-is undergoing change. One of the most notable changes is the disaggregation of work processes, or the unbundling of work into component tasks and their allocation to different sources of labor. The legal profession, and specifically the corporate law firms and clients that make up the profession's "core", is increasingly subject to such reorganization. An emerging hypothesis is that this unbundling and reallocation of tasks underpins new forms of stratification. This dissertation explores the extent to which tasks underpin the distribution of opportunities and rewards that come to define occupational stratification in law.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Riordan, Christine A.(Christine Ann)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Paul Osterman.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121837

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121837