The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945

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...