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Establishment and Meritocracy

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Establishment and Meritocracy

By Peter Hennessy

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Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of meritocracy as a concept and the persistence of the shadowy notion of an establishment in Britain s institutions of state. He asks whether these elusive concepts still have any power to explain British society, and why they continue to fascinate us. To wh...Show more

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9781908323774

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Haus Publishing

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2014

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Establishment and Meritocracy

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