ISBN:
9781350192065
,
9781350192102
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 248 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Edition:
Paperback edition
Series Statement:
New directions in social and cultural history
DDC:
305.40941
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
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Public welfare History
;
Welfare state Social aspects
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History
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21st century history: from c 2000 -
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British & Irish history
;
Europäische Geschichte
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Geschichte
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HIS015070
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HIS015080
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HIS058000
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HISTORY / Social History
;
History
;
Militärgeschichte
;
Oral history
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Great Britain Social conditions 1945-
Abstract:
Women born in mid twentieth-century Britain were the welfare state generation - not only were their lives fundamentally shaped by the welfare state, they helped to transform it. In this ground-breaking work, Eve Worth examines the impact of the welfare state on the life course of women whose opportunities and social experiences were formed by it in the post-1945 period. Centred around an oral history study, this book argues that the welfare state was so central to the lives of women born in Britain between the late 1930s and early 1950s that they should be considered the welfare state generation . The post-war expansion of the welfare state was one of the most transformative political changes of the twentieth century, yet we know little about its development in practice, nor its long-term impact on those who grew up within it. Using a ground-breaking life history methodology to examine women from their birth in the long 1940s to retirement in the mid-2010s, it includes thirty-six original life history interviews alongside social surveys and the Census for wider contextBy deploying a cross-class approach, this book moves the discussion on from just looking at university-educated women, to include women often overlooked in gender and social studies. Re-conceptualising the causes of social mobility in post-war Britain, exploring a new understanding of work and an updated periodisation of welfare state development, The Welfare State Generation offers a new approach to the history of class and gender, arguing that we need to move beyond the focus on women s emotions and personal identity, to consider their experiences and relationships with the state as employer, educator and provider
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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