Description: This book offers a new approach to the historical study of The Welfare State, with a close focuse on class and gender.
Brief description: Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair of Modern History at the University of Essex, UK.
Review Quotes:
"As the welfare state increasingly comes under pressure in the twenty-first century, this book reminds us of its critical place in post-war British life, not only as an ideology translated into social provision but also as an aid to identity formation, particularly amongst women who arguably had the most to benefit from it." --Contemporary British History
"Especially valuable for the scope of its analysis, this book is best for those studying modern British history, women's history, and oral history." --CHOICE "In this outstanding book, Eve Worth revisions the history of class, gender and the British welfare state by centring the lives of women born in the long 1940s. Writing with exceptional lucidity and authority, Worth succeeds brilliantly in recasting existing narratives of social and political change in contemporary Britain." --Helen McCarthy, Reader in Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Cambridge, UK. "With its broad range of source material, command of several scholarly literatures, and numerous persuasive interventions, this book contains all the ingredients of a classic historical work, essential to all those interested in the histories of gender, class, age, and the welfare state in post-war Britain." --Cultural and Social History