BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE WAYS OF LIFE, ASPIRATIONS AND POLITICAL CULTURE OF MEN AND WOMEN 'BLACKCOATED WORKERS'; 2 'THE INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION OF SOCIETY': THE LCC WORKS DEPARTMENT, A MUNICIPAL SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT; 3 THE APPETITE FOR MANAGING OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES; CONCLUSION; SOURCES; NOTES; INDEX
Summary
The world's largest municipal government at the opening of this century sought to master the prob- lems of metropolitan amelioration, political econ- omy & public culture. 'London Progressivism' is tested against its practitioners' accomplishments
