The welfare state generation : women, agency and class in Britain since 1945 /

The welfare state generation : women, agency and class in Britain since 1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Worth, Eve, author.
Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ©2022
Description:	1 online resource () : illustrations (some color).
Language:	English
Series:	New directions in social and cultural history
Subject:	Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions. Public welfare -- Great Britain -- History. Welfare state -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History. Economic history. Welfare state. Women -- Economic conditions. Women -- Social conditions. Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- Great Britain.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12701022

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ISBN:	9781350192089 1350192082 9781350192072 1350192074 9781350192096 1350192090 9781350192065 9781350192102
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2021).
Other form:	Print version: Worth, Eve. Welfare state generation London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350192065
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781350192096

Table of Contents:

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.