ISBN:
9781350192065
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
x, 248 Seiten
Serie:
New directions in social and cultural history
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Worth, Eve Welfare state generation
DDC:
305.40941
Schlagwort(e):
Women Social conditions
;
Public welfare History
;
Welfare state Social aspects
;
History
;
Great Britain Social conditions 1945-
;
Großbritannien
;
Frau
;
Wohlfahrtsstaat
;
Geschichte 1945-
Kurzfassung:
Introduction: The Welfare State Generation -- 'Daughters of the State': Girlhood in Post-war Britain -- Opportunity and Constraint: The Welfare State Generation Leaves School -- The Golden Age of Social Mobility: Welfare Expansion and Adult -- Education During the Long 1970s -- Agents of Change: Women Transforming the Welfare State -- A Clash of Experiences: The Process of De-Professionalisation From -- Thatcher to Blair -- Generational Divides? Older Age and the Politics of Welfare -- Conclusion.
Kurzfassung:
"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 context By 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"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
