The Merit System and Municipal Civil Service: A Fostering of Social Inequality

by Frances Gottfried

Book Overview

Frances Gottfried offers a thorough-going critique of municipal civil service systems and the principles of meritocracy that underlie them, focusing especially on the social inequities and entrenchment of power that continue to bedevil the public sector. Beginning with an examination of the principles and history of the merit system, the author challenges the assumption that a real meritocracy does in fact exist. She looks at current practices and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313257418
• ISBN13: 9780313257414
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"