The rise and rise of meritocracy
By: edited by Geoff Dench.
Contributors: Dench, Geoff.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. in association with The Political Quarterly
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781405147194
Subjects: Young, Michael Dunlop, -- 1915- -- Congresses; Labour Party (Great Britain) -- Congresses; Elite (Social sciences) -- Congresses; Social status -- Congresses; Merit (Ethics) -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Elite (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Social status -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Equality -- Great Britain -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Political quarterly.
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reviewing meritocracy / Geoff Dench; title: The Labour Party as crucible / Asa Briggs; title: Meritocracy in the civil service, 1853-1970 / Jon Davis; title: A tract for the times / Paul Barker; title: We sat down at the table of privilege and complained about the food / Hilary Land; title: The chequered career of a cryptic concept / Claire Donovan; title: Looking back on meritocracy / Michael Young; title: A brief profile of the new British establishment / Jim Ogg; title: Face, race, and place : merit and ethnic minorities / Michelynn Laflèche; title: Marginalised young men / Yvonne Roberts; title: The unmaking of the English working class / Ferdinand Mount; title: Age and inequality / Eric Midwinter; title: Ship of state in peril / Peregrine Worsthorne; title: The moral economy of meritocracy, or, The unanticipated triumph of reform and the failure of revolution in the West / Irving Louis Horowitz; title: Japan at the meritocracy frontier : from here, where? / Takehiko Kariya And Ronald Dore; title: Just rewards : meritocracy fifty years later / Peter Marris; title: What do we mean by talent? / Richard Sennett; title: Resolving the conflict between the family and meritocracy / Belinda Brown; title: Meritocracy and popular legitimacy / Peter Saunders; title: The new assets agenda / Andrew Gamble And Rajiv Prabhakar; title: New Labour and the withering away of the working class? / Jon Cruddas; title: A delay on the road to meritocracy / Peter Wilby; title: Putting social contribution back into merit / Geoff Dench; title: Ladder of opportunity or engine of inequality? / Ruth Lister; title: The future of meritocracy / David Willetts.