ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
INTRODUCTION 11
PART ONE：RISE OF THE ELITE 17
1 CLASH OF SOCIAL FORCES 19
1 Civil service model 19
2 All things bright and beautiful 22
3 Family and feudalism 29
4 Spur of foreign competition 31
5 Socialist midwives 36
6 Summary 39
2 THREAT OF COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS 40
1 Third force in the schools 40
2 Agitation defeated 46
3 The Leicester hybrid 52
4 Summary 55
3 ORIGINS OF MODERN EDUCATION 57
1 The most fundamental reform 57
2 Higher salaries for teachers 60
3 Boarding grammar schools 63
4 Progress of intelligence testing 69
5 Summary 77
4 FROM SENIORITY TO MERIT 79
1 The class of old men 79
2 Factories cease to be schools 81
3 Challenge to age 85
4 Summary 94
PART TWO： DECLINE OF THE LOWER CLASSES 101
5 STATUS OF THE WORKER 103
1 Golden age of equality 103
2 Gulf between the classes 106
3 Pioneers of dirty work 111
4 The new unemployment 116
5 Domestic servants again 120
6 Summary 123
6 FALL OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT 126
1 Historic mission 126
2 Decline of parliament 134
3 The technicians 139
4 Adjustment in the unions 143
5 Summary 149
7 RICH AND POOR 152
1 Merit money 152
2 The modern synthesis 155
3 Summary 161
8 CRISIS 163
1 The first women＇s campaign 163
2 Modern feminist movement 170
3 Coming of the crisis 175
4 New Conservatism 180
5 A rank and file at last 185
6 From here，where？ 188