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Goldsmiths College, founded in 1891 by a company for higher education and recreation for the "men and women of the industrial, working and artisan classes," has been denied full school status although owned by the University of London. Recent debate about the college's future has focused on maintenance of standards and its tradition of enrolling marginally qualified students. (MSE)

In this paper we are concerned with the study of the changing balance of power in the health care services between professionalism, unionism and the state within the British National Health Service. Our approach is macro-sociological and historical. Ours is a structural analysis in which we explore the importance of class and sexual divisions in relation to the formation of occupational associations and to modes of occupational control: specifically, professionalism and unionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]