Venster op het buitenland. Engeland

Samenvatting

An account of 2 study reports by the Social Research Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The 1st is Higher civil servants in Britain, from 1810 to the present day by R. K. Kelsall (London, England: Routledge, 1954). This is an examination of the social origin of British higher civil servants. Its conclusion is that Class I of the Registrar-General's SC classification, which accounts for only 3.4% of the adult M population of working age, has hitherto included 33.3% of the fathers in the group, and 80% or so in the 1929 and 1939 groups. These figures are not unlike those reached by parallel studies in the US. The 2nd study, The schoolteachers: the growth of the teaching profession in England and Wales from 1800 to the present day by A. Tropp (London, England: Heinemann, 1957), indicates that teachers employed by British local authorities tend to be of lower social origin than those employed by private School's. It concentrates on the role of teachers' professional org's in improving position and payment. This is in contrast to the recently lowered public evaluation of higher civil servants, whose payment is lower than that of similarly qualified people working in private industry. The absence of a union may have something to do with this. I. Langnas.