Michael Young (Politician)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 - 14 January 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. During an active life he was instrumental in shaping Labour Party thinking, was a leading protagonist on social reform, and founded or helped found a number of socially-useful organizations. These include the Consumers'' Association, the National Consumer Council, the Open University, the National Extension College, the Open College of the Arts and Language Line, a telephone-interpreting business. Young was born in Manchester. His father was an Australian violinist and music critic, his mother a Bohemian painter and actress, and 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 had a long association with the small school, as student, trustee, deputy chairman and historian. He studied economics at the University of London and was called to the Bar in 1939.... Mehr