# How does The Acquisitive Society develop the theme of Industry as a Profession?

> The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney

## Answer

The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney develops Industry as a Profession across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.

Tawney proposes reorganizing industry on the model of a profession, where work is governed by standards of service, competence, and ethical conduct, rather than by the profit motive and shareholder interests.

The author proposes that industry should be organized as a profession, with responsibility placed on producers and consumers rather than absentee owners.

The chapter's title and core proposal: reorganizing industry as a profession, with service as the criterion of success and rules to enforce professional standards.

The chapter centrally proposes turning industry into a profession, where brain workers become function-based professionals rather than profit-driven employees.

## Evidence

- [the-functional-society](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_acquisitive_society_se/chapters/the-functional-society.md): The author proposes that industry should be organized as a profession, with responsibility placed on producers and consumers rather than absentee owners.
- [industry-as-a-profession](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_acquisitive_society_se/chapters/industry-as-a-profession.md): The chapter's title and core proposal: reorganizing industry as a profession, with service as the criterion of success and rules to enforce professional standards.
- [the-position-of-the-brain-worker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_acquisitive_society_se/chapters/the-position-of-the-brain-worker.md): The chapter centrally proposes turning industry into a profession, where brain workers become function-based professionals rather than profit-driven employees.
- [porro-unum-necessarium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_acquisitive_society_se/chapters/porro-unum-necessarium.md): Proposes that professional organizations should govern industry, with producers having direct responsibility to the community and subject to consumer supervision.

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