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|title=Jobsworth: Confessions of the Man from the Council

|author=Malcolm Philips

|publisher=Chaplin Books

|date=April 2013

|summary=An intriguing memoir of life working in the council in the 60s and 70s, this is an entertaining book crammed with fun anecdotes.

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Local government isn’t what it used to be. People say this with regret, but reading Malcolm Philips’ memoir you will probably be left with the impression that this is a Very Good Thing. Because fun as it may have been to be working in the council in the 60s and 70s, if this entertaining account is anything to go by, it was also an awful shambles.