Subject(s): Municipal officials and employees in Great Britain. -- Task and Achievements : Achievements in national emergency, financial yardsticks -- Composition and layout : Distribution under local government structure -- Development as a service : Trade unionism as molding force, beginnings of Whitleyism, hadow report, Whitley edifice -- National service conditions : survey of charter, recruitment and training, Scottish charter, agreements for chief officers -- Constitutional status : Relation between master and servants, tenure of office, civil rights -- Shaping agencies -- Organizations of employers and officers : Employers organizations, professional societies, national association of local government officers -- Whitley machinery : National joint council and provisional councils, local government examinations board, national joint council for Scotland, negotiating committees for chief officers -- Local authority as employer : Task of authority, machinery for staffing, functions of staff committee, role of local joint committee, work of establishment officers -- Qualification and training : Basic requirements, requirements for high office