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050 00 $aHM1263$b.R57 2006
245 04 $aThe rise and rise of meritocracy /$cedited by Geoff Dench.
260 $aOxford, UK ;$aMalden, MA :$bBlackwell Pub. in association with The Political Quarterly,$c2006.
300 $ax, 272 p. ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing as a special issue of The political quarterly."
500 $a"Arises out of a conference held at the Institute of Community Studies on 7 May 2004"--Ack.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Reviewing meritocracy / Geoff Dench -- The Labour Party as crucible / Asa Briggs -- Meritocracy in the civil service, 1853-1970 / Jon Davis -- A tract for the times / Paul Barker -- We sat down at the table of privilege and complained about the food / Hilary Land -- The chequered career of a cryptic concept / Claire Donovan -- Looking back on meritocracy / Michael Young -- A brief profile of the new British establishment / Jim Ogg -- Face, race, and place : merit and ethnic minorities / Michelynn Lafl{grave}eche -- Marginalised young men / Yvonne Roberts -- The unmaking of the English working class / Ferdinand Mount -- Age and inequality / Eric Midwinter -- Ship of state in peril / Peregrine Worsthorne -- The moral economy of meritocracy, or, The unanticipated triumph of reform and the failure of revolution in the West / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Japan at the meritocracy frontier : from here, where? / Takehiko Kariya And Ronald Dore -- Just rewards : meritocracy fifty years later / Peter Marris -- What do we mean by talent? / Richard Sennett -- Resolving the conflict between the family and meritocracy / Belinda Brown -- Meritocracy and popular legitimacy / Peter Saunders -- The new assets agenda / Andrew Gamble And Rajiv Prabhakar -- New Labour and the withering away of the working class? / Jon Cruddas -- A delay on the road to meritocracy / Peter Wilby -- Putting social contribution back into merit / Geoff Dench -- Ladder of opportunity or engine of inequality? / Ruth Lister -- The future of meritocracy / David Willetts.
600 10 $aYoung, Michael Dunlop,$d1915-$tRise of the meritocracy$vCongresses.
610 20 $aLabour Party (Great Britain)$vCongresses.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$vCongresses.
650 0 $aSocial status$vCongresses.
650 0 $aMerit (Ethics)$xSocial aspects$vCongresses.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zGreat Britain$vCongresses.
650 0 $aSocial status$zGreat Britain$vCongresses.
650 0 $aEquality$zGreat Britain$vCongresses.
700 1 $aDench, Geoff.
730 0 $aPolitical quarterly.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034425.html
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