ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers to recent scholarship on municipal employees and services within the United Kingdom. Continuity, a high degree of administrative cohesion and concerns for regulation were thus characterizing features of the Scottish system, and had implications for the evolution of the civic bureaucracy. Glasgow's town clerks provide a useful illustration, as they can be positively identified as operating from the mid-fifteenth century, although the office had been established much earlier, to serve the needs of the burgh court. Glasgow's police restructuring of 1846, under direct civic control, had the effect of transforming the city territorially as well as administratively. This broad overview of Glasgow's municipal employees and services from the pioneering Police Act of 1800 has necessarily been selective, and the themes highlighted to some extent reflect the current state of research into the Scottish city.
