Eve Worth's study of the post-war generation of women who, she argues, self-define as daughters of the welfare state, adds another layer to the conversation, placing the welfare state at the heart of her interpretation of social mobility and class across the life course of women born between the late 1930s and the early 1950s. In autobiographies and oral histories, the value that access to secondary and tertiary education conferred on this generation of women operates as a common denominator, at least for those who made it, who stepped out of their social class. The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945: Eve Worth London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, x+264 pp., £85 (hbk), ISBN 978 1 35019 206 5, 9781350192072 (ePDF) (£76.50), 9781350192089 (ebk) (£76.50). [Extracted from the article]