An edition of The rise and rise of meritocracy (2006)

The rise and rise of meritocracy

The rise and rise of meritocracy
Geoff Dench
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272

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The rise and rise of meritocracy
2006, Blackwell Pub. in association with The Political Quarterly
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 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 Laflèche
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.

Edition Notes

"First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing as a special issue of The political quarterly."

"Arises out of a conference held at the Institute of Community Studies on 7 May 2004"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, UK, Malden, MA
Genre
Congresses.
Other Titles
Political quarterly.

Classifications

Library of Congress
HM1263 .R57 2006, JA75.7

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 272 p. ;
Number of pages
272

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15619286M
ISBN 10
1405147199
ISBN 13
9781405147194
LCCN
2006034425
OCLC/WorldCat
73993575
Goodreads
792605

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