Professionals under Pressure - 4 Contents - 6 Preface - 10 1 Introduction - 12 2 Professions, professionals and the‘new’ government policies - 22 3 Professionals, power and the reform of public services - 42 4 Professionals dealing with pressures - 56 5 A managerial assault on professionalism? - 74 6 Legal professionals under pressure - 92 7 Institutionalizing professional conflicts through financial reforms - 110 8 Public professionals and policy alienation - 126 9 Loyalties of public sector professionals - 146 10 Democratizing social work - 162 11 Bounded professionalism - 180 12 Control of front-line workers in welfare agencies - 194 13 Professionalization of (police) leaders - 212 14 Conclusions and ways forward - 230 About the editors and authors - 240