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The Rise of the Meritocracy

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Transaction Publishers, 1994 - Intellectuals - 180 pages
  

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Like 1984 and Brave New World, The Rise of the Meritocracy, written in 1958, provides one of the great dystopian visions of the twentieth century. What makes the book peculiar, however, is that modern ... Read full review

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It is an amazing insight into how society works, how families work, and how good intentions go astray. It is really important that people realise that the term meritocracy, which we now wave around as ... Read full review

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Contents

1 Civil service model
9
2 All things bright and beautiful
12
3 Family and feudalism
19
4 Spur of foreign competition
21
5 Socialist midwives
26
6 Summary
29
1 Third force in the schools
30
2 Agitation defeated
36
2 Gulf between the classes
96
3 Pioneers of dirty work
101
4 The new unemployment
106
5 Domestic servants again
110
6 Summary
113
1 Historic mission
116
2 Decline of parliament
124
3 The technicians
129

3 The Leicester hybrid
42
4 Summary
45
1 The most fundamental reform
47
2 Higher salaries for teachers
50
3 Boarding grammar schools
53
4 Progress of intelligence testing
59
5 Summary
67
1 The class of old men
69
2 Factories cease to be schools
71
3 Challenge to age
75
4 Summary
84
1 Golden age of equality
93
4 Adjustment in the unions
133
5 Summary
139
1 Merit money
142
2 The modern synthesis
145
3 Summary
151
1 The first womens campaign
153
2 Modern feminist movement
160
3 Coming of the crisis
165
4 New Conservatism
170
5 A rank and file at last
175
6 From here where?
178
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