Michael Young: The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: The New Elite of Our Social Revolution (1958)

Reviewed at some length in Freedom in 1959 (Rush), this takes the form a report written by a historical sociologist in 2033. The narrator fully supports the meritocratic system, the author tacitly does not; this results in the case for meritocracy being well-presented, the case against only as well supplied as the reader can imagine unaided. Thus as a dystopia (as which it is intended) it is perhaps over-subtle.