The status of professional employees at colleges and their role within the unionized workplace are considered in two articles. In "The Position of Professional Employees," Eliot Freidson discusses findings of a study on professionals and implications for college collective bargaining. Attention is directed to the validity of the position held by proletarianization theorists who claim that professionals are in much the same position as the industrial worker (i.e., without any significant power to control what they do, how to do it). The second article, "Professionals and the World of Work," by David M. Rabban, considers collective bargaining for professional employees. The influence of the 1980 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the National Labor Relations Board versus Yeshiva University is considered. The Court held that Yeshiva faculty were managers and were not covered by federal labor law. It is claimed that the Yeshiva decision has had minimal effects beyond private education. It is suggested that when collective bargaining conflicts with traditional professional values it is usually because of inappropriate transposition of legal doctrines developed in the industrial sector to the distinctive setting of professional employment. (SW)