A national movement of new professionals is growing in America; major professions such as medicine, law, religion, education, politics, and business are being radically changed. United by a network of publications and new organizations, the movement is devoted to social change, client control, and anticredentialism. It is geared to: professionals serving the people, especially the poor; concern with constructive social change rather than careers and money-making; transforming the shape of the bureaucracies and professions controlling power. Young college gaduates, driven by a new social conscience and by impulses toward more job satisfaction, are not settling easily into established, institutionalized career patterns. The book offers the vicarious experience of reading about people pursuing, in a humane and authentic way, some major professions. Eleven chapters written by active, new professionals relate ideas from the viewpoint of intellectual, professor, scientist, doctor, lawyer, clergyman, political activist, journalist, teacher, businessman, and engineer. One chapter deals with deprofessionalization and the effect of paraprofessionals while another chapter pertains to demasculinization of the professions. It is a book for young people looking ahead to their work lives and for established professionals seeking a new orientation. (EA)