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Professionalism, Patronage and Public Service in Victorian London
The Staff of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856-1889
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Professionalism, Patronage and Public Service in Victorian London
The Staff of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856-1889
About this book
This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 The beginnings of modern local government in London: a new middle-class element
- 2 The background to the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works
- 3 The new Board's scope and structure
- 4 Achievement, 1856-88
- 5 Administrative development
- 6 Methods of recruitment
- 7 Origins and social status of staff
- 8 Officials' educational and employment background
- 9 Salaries and promotion prospects
- 10 Work ambitions and social aspirations
- 11 Life at the office
- 12 Managing the staff
- 13 Scandal in the 1880s and the Board's demise
- 14 Some conclusions
- Appendix 1 Members
- Appendix 2 Chief officers and senior assistants
- Appendix 3 Occupations of fathers
- Appendix 4 Previous occupations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index