Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington

Michael Dunlop Young, Baron Young of Dartington, (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002), was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. Young was an urbanist, known as an academic researcher, polemicist and institution-builder.

During his career, Young was influential in shaping the policy and ideology of the Labour Party. As secretary of the policy committee of the Labour Party, he was responsible for drafting ''Let Us Face the Future'', Labour's manifesto for the 1945 general election. Young was a leading advocate for social reform, and in that capacity he founded or helped to found a number of organisations. These include the Consumers' Association, ''Which?'' magazine, the National Consumer Council, the Open University, the Institute for Community Studies, the National Extension College, the Open College of the Arts and Language Line, a telephone-interpreting business. Provided by Wikipedia