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Professionalization and State Building: The State and the Professions in Illinois, 1870–1920

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Thomas Goebel
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The American professions took on their modern shape in the period between 1870 and 1920. After Jacksonian democracy had severely weakened the organizational structures of the professions, a series of interrelated reforms raised academic standards, improved professional schools, and standardized and strengthened licensing requirements.

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Social Science History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 309 - 337
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1994 

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