In 1933, five years before the first issue of the American Archivist, Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders and P. A. Wilson offered a detailed account of the “profession” as a distinct way to define work.¹ Those who were part of a profession had to meet certain criteria, such as conforming to a code of ethics and acquiring formal, specialized education. In the decades that followed, other authors presented their own sets of conditions for an occupation to be worthy of professional status. In 1964, Harold Wilensky suggested that there was a common professionalization process, and relatively few occupations