This account of English working-class communities in England from
1940 to 1970 is told through the words and memories of those who
lived then. The book is at once vivid, moving and eye-opening.
This was a period of change, usually seen as progress. People
everywhere became better off. Healthcare was provided free and the
education of children was universal. This was the first age of the
domestic machine, releasing women for employment in paid work. The
church, the police, teachers and the state became less sources of
authority than of care. Television provided entertainment in the
home. Improved methods of contraception emancipated sexuality. But,
as Elizabeth Roberts shows, the caring state and the privatized
family were also accompanied by a diminished sense of community an
neighborliness, and by a loss of confidence in previously accepted
standards and values in family relationships and the rearing of
children.
"Women and Families" provides an always fascinating insight into
the realities of social change during three crucial decades of
English history. Few of the accepted generalizations - concerning
the changing roles of men and women, the loss of working-class
solidarity, the decline of family and communal life, the effects of
high-rise living, and the benefits of healthcare and social welfare
- survive the evidence so ably assembled here. This is an important
and exciting book: it will be widely read.
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