Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (August 9, 1915, Manchester - January 14, 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. During an active life he founded or helped found a remarkable number of socially useful organizations. These include the Consumers' Association, the National Consumer Council,[1] the Open University and Language Line, a telephone-interpreting business. is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Which?, until September 2004 known also as the Consumers Association, is a consumer rights organisation in the UK, founded in 1957 by Michael Young. ... Affiliations Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Website http://www. ... Language Line is a language resources company based in London. ...

Young's father was an Australian violinist and music critic, his mother a bohemian painter and actor. Until he was eight, he grew up in Melbourne, returning to England shortly before his parents' marriage broke up. He attended several schools, eventually entering Dartington Hall, a new progressive school in Devon, in the 1920s. He would have a long association with the small school, as its trustee, deputy chairman and historian. He studied economics at the University of London and qualified as a barrister. Dartington Hall Estate Gardens Dartington Hall, near Totnes, Devon, England, is a medieval hall built between 1388 and 1400 for John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon, half-brother to Richard II. After John was beheaded, the Crown owned the estate until it was acquired in 1559 by Sir Arthur Champernowne, Vice... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ...

He helped bring the Labour Party Government led by Clement Attlee into office, single-handedly writing Labour's 1945 manifesto as the Party's young Director of Research. He left the post in 1950 and began PhD studies at the London School of Economics in 1952. His studies of housing and local government policy in East London left him disillusioned with the state of community relations and local Labour councillors. This prompted him to found the urban studies think tank, the Institute for Community Studies, which was to be Young's principal vehicle for exploring his ideas of social reform and creating over sixty institutions. Its basic tenet was to give people more say in running their lives and institutions The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mascot Beaver Affiliations University of London Russell Group EUA ACU CEMS APSIA Golden Triangle Website http://www. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Institute of Community Studies based in London is an urban studies think tank. ...

With Peter Wilmott, he wrote the ground-breaking study, Family and Kinship in East London (known affectionately by sociologists as Fakinel - invariably pronounced with a cockney accent) and, alone, he wrote the influential satire The Rise Of The Meritocracy in 1958, originally for the Fabian Society although they refused to publish it. It led to a change in Labour's thinking on equal opportunities and coined the word meritocracy. Young intended the word to have negative connotations, and he later became disappointed with the way in which subsequent governments (especially New Labour) came to suggest that a meritocracy is something worth striving for[2]. It was at this time too that Young began work on the Consumers' Association, the National Consumer Council and the Open University. He fostered the work of many younger researchers and "social entrepreneurs", founding the School for Social Entrepreneurs in 1997. Among the former was the collection of social studies in medical care, led by Dr. Ann Cartwright. Aspects of the work of Michael Young are now being developed by the Young Foundation, under the direction of Geoff Mulgan, a former policy advisor to Tony Blair. Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Ann Cartwright (b. ... The Young Foundation is an organisation whose proclaimed mission is to undertake research to identify and understand social needs and then develop practical initiatives and institutions to address them. ... Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation based in London and Visiting Professor at University College, London. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...

He was a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, from 1961-6, and President of Birkbeck, University of London, from 1989-92.

Throughout his life and particularly in later life, Young was concerned for older people and that society should take notice of them. He co-founded the University of the Third Age and Linkage, bringing together older people without grandchildren, and young people without grandparents. For his work, he was made a life peer as Baron Young of Dartington, of Dartington in the County of Devon in 1978. The University of the Third Age is an international organisation whose aims are the education and stimulation of retired members of the community - those in the third age of life. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... “Devonshire” redirects here. ...

Young married three times. In 1945, he wed Joan Lawton, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. They divorced, and in 1960 he married Sasha Moorsom, the novelist, sculptor and painter, with whom he had a son and daughter. They worked together on several projects, including in the townships of South Africa. After Sasha's death in 1993, Young married Dorit Uhlemann, with whom he had a daughter. Toby Young, Michael Young's son with Moorsom, is a celebrity journalist and writer, best-known for his book, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People. Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Children in a township near Cape Town in 1989 In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (principally black Africans and Coloureds, who were put into separate townships or locations) who lived near or worked... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Toby Young (born Toby Daniel Moorsom Young in 1963) is a homuncular high-flying British journalist, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his disastrous five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Conde Nast Publications Vanity Fair...

Bibliography

• Will the war make us poorer? [with Sir Henry Noel Young] (1943)
• Civil aviation (1944)
• Trial of Adolf Hitler (1944)
• There's work for all [with Baron Young and Theodor Prager] (1945)
• Labour's plan for plenty (1947)
• What is a socialised industry? (1947)
• Small man : big world : a discussion of socialist democracy (1949)
• Fifty million unemployed (1952)
• Study of the extended family in East London (1955)
• Family and Kinship in East London [with Peter Willmott] (1957)
• Chipped white cups of Dover : a discussion of the possibility of a new progressive party (1960)
• Family and class in a London suburb [with Peter Willmott] (1960)
• New look at comprehensive schools [with Michael Armstrong] (1964)
• Innovation and research in education (1967)
• Forecasting and the social sciences [ed.] (1968)
• Hornsey plan : a role for neighbourhood councils in the new local government [with John Baker] (1971)
• Is equality a dream (1972)
• Lifeline telephone service for the elderly : an account of a pilot project in Hull [with Peter G. Gregory] (1972)
• Learning begins at home : a study of a junior school and its parents [with Patrick McGeeney] (1973)
• Symmetrical family; a study of work and leisure in the London region [with Peter Willmott] (1973)
• Mutual aid in a selfish society : a plea for strengthening the co-operative movement [with Marianne Rigge] (1979)
• Building societies and the consumer : a report [with Marianne Rigge] (1981)
• Report from Hackney : a study of an inner city area [with et al.] (1981)
• Elmhirsts of Dartington : the creation of an utopian community (1982)
• Inflation, unemployment and the remoralisation of society (1982)
• Up the hill to Cowley Street : views of Tawney members on SDP policy [ed. with Tony Flower and Peter Hall] (1982)
• Revolution from within : co-operatives and co-operation in British industr [with Marianne Rigge] (1983)
• Social scientist as innovator (1983)
• To merge or not to merge (1983)
• Development of new growth areas : "workers co-operatives and their environment: comparative analysis with a view to job creation" : support for worker co-operatives in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands [with Marianne Rigge] (1985)
• Metronomic society : natural rhythms and human timetables (1988)
• Rhythms of society [ed. with Tom Schuller] (1988)
• Campaign for children's after-school clubs : the case for action [with Matthew Owen] (1991)
• Life after work : the arrival of the ageless society [with Tom Schuller, Johnston Birchall and Gwyneth Vernon) (1991)
• Governing London [with Jerry White] (1996)
• The new East End : kinship, race and conflict [with Geoff Dench and Kate Gavron] (2006)

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External links

• The Jobs Letter
• Guardian Unlimited
• The Young Foundation
• Language Line
• The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)