Routledge Higher Civil Servants in Britain 1870-Present - Routledge

First published in 1998, this Routledge volume examines the social composition and mobility of Britain's higher civil servants from 1870 to 1955. Stemming from an original study on social mobility, the book reveals how Britain's elite administrative classes were predominantly recruited from expensively-educated middle-class backgrounds during this formative period. Part of the International Library of Sociology series on public policy, welfare, and social work, this scholarly work provides essential historical insight into the institutional structures and class dynamics that shaped British governance and public administration throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.