How has the modern welfare state responded to the needs of working class women, and why?
… between gender and social class and how that determined the experience of welfare state provision for women will be judged The structure of the British workplace saw huge changes in the post war decades. Across the nation more and more women were taking up paid employment, many had started working in place of men who had gone off to fight in the war. They formed a “reserve army of labour” a term derived from the work of Marx which refers to a disadvantaged sector of the workforce who supply labour for a sudden expansion of production in times of economic boom and who can be disposed of easily in times of economic slump. (Hakim 1992) These positions were often part time, poorly paid with poor working conditions and few opportunities to train or for promotion. There was also extra work created by the war, such as nursery and caring professions. …
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