A tract for the times

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 36-44

  Barker, Paul ^a,b  

^a YOUNG FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Community Studies   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845650689     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00779.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. This is an updated version of my chapter 'The ups and downs of the meritocracy', which first appeared in Geo. Dench, Tony Flower and Kate Gavron, eds, Young at Eighty: the Prolific Public Life of Michael Young, Manchester, Carcanet, 1995.
2. Robert Hewison, Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960-75, London, Methuen, 1988.
3. Paul Barker, 'Michael Young', New Society, vol. 12, no. 304, 8 August 1968 (reprinted from Interplay, New York).
4. At Thames & Hudson, Helen Scott-Lidgett kindly gave access to the publisher file of newspaper and magazine reviews of the first British and US editions of The Rise of the Meritocracy.
5. Edward Shils and Michael Young, 'The meaning of the Coronation', The Sociological Review, new series, vol. 1, no. 2, December 1953.
6. See Central Advisory Council for Education - England, 15 to 18, vol. 1: Report (the Crowther Report), London, HMSO, 1959.
7. Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, New York, The Free Press, 1994.
8. Nicholas Lemann, '2034' (review of new American edition of The Rise of the Meritocracy), The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 273, no. 6, June 1994.
9. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, London, Chatto & Windus, 1957.
10. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, London, Chatto & Windus, 1958.
11. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Becoming a Burthen to their Parents or Country; and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin, S. Harding, 1729
12. (reprinted in Ian MacGowen, ed., The Restoration and 18th Century London, Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature, vol. 3, London, Macmillan, 1989).
13. Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory, London, Verso, 1994.
14. Paul Rock and Stanley Cohen, 'The Teddy Boy', in Vernon Bogdanor and Robert Skidelsky, eds, The Age of Affluence, 1951-64, London, Macmillan, 1970.
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18. cited in Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain 1945-51, London, Jonathan Cape, 1992.
19. Susan Crosland, Tony Crosland, London, Jonathan Cape, 1982.
20. David Donnison, 'Education and opinion', New Society, vol. 10, no. 265, 26 October 1967.
21. Anonymous, 'Education: exam pass', The Economist, 23 October 2004.
22. Ferdinand Mount, Mind the Gap: the New Class Divide in Britain, London, Short Books, 2004; see also his chapter in this present collection.
23. Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1959.
24. Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1959.
25. Zelda Cheatle and Michael Mack, eds, The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne, London, Zelda Cheatle Press, 1993.
26. Bernard Crick, George Orwell: a Life, London, Secker & Warburg, 1980.
27. Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th edn, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.