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The Prestige Value of Public Employment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Leonard D. White
Leonard D. White
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Extract

In 1929, the University of Chicago Press published the first intensive study of the prestige rating of municipal employment, the results of an experiment enlisting the cooperation of over 5,000 residents of Chicago and yielding over 90,000 separate expressions of opinion on the relative status of municipal and private employment. The results of this inquiry were disturbing. The prestige of municipal employment in Chicago appeared to be less than that of corresponding private employment, and special inquiries into the integrity, courtesy, and competence of city employees revealed serious lack of public confidence.

Type
Public Administration and Administrative Law
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 1932 , pp. 910 - 914
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1932

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References

1 White, Leonard D., The Prestige Value of Municipal Employment in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1929)Google Scholar.

2 Further Contributions to the Prestige Value of Public Employment (University of Chicago Press).

3 New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, Columbus, Madison, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Austin.