Eve Worth
Biographic Data
| ID | 388121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eve Worth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eve |
| FAMILY NAME | Worth |
| SIGNATURE | WORTH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3772-8102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘There’s no such thing as a girls’ public school; there are only types’
This article explores the complex eco-system of girls’ elite schooling in twentieth-century Britain using The Girls’ School Yearbook (GSYB)- a volume published by the Association of Headmistresses to provide information on the ‘leading girls’ public schools’. We undertake a Latent Class Analysis of the GSYB to draw out the underlying patterns in the nature of the schools. We make two central arguments, first that this analysis demonstrates the in…
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class
Ambivalent Agents
This article examines civil society organisations working to enhance social mobility in England, especially through higher education. Against the backdrop of neoliberal governance, we investigate whether these organisations operate as protective counter-movements resisting marketisation or as institutional mechanisms that stabilise the inequalities they aim to address. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's concept of the 'double movement' and Nancy Fraser's …
Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain
This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in the mid‐century are reflected in patterns of maternal occupation among matriculants, shifting from being…
I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’
This paper makes a major intervention in the historiography of elites through analysis of the experience of women occupational elites born in post-war Britain.The paper draws on a new set of oral history interviews recently conducted with women born in the post-war decades with an entry in Who's Who which is the leading biographical dictionary of 'noteworthy and influential' people in the UK.The women we interviewed were all highly occupationally…
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite
Private schools have long played a crucial role in male elite formation but their importance to women’s trajectories is less clear. In this paper, we explore the relationship between girls’ private schools and elite recruitment in Britain over the past 120 years – drawing on the historical database of Who’s Who, a unique catalogue of the elite. We find that alumni of elite girls schools have been around 20 times more likely than other women to re…
Transfer State
Journal Article Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain, by Peter Sloman Get access Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain, by Peter Sloman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 318. £69). Eve Worth Eve Worth University of Exeter, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales
The twentieth century saw substantial changes in the educational and occupational opportunities available to women in Britain. These may have been supposed to foster new patterns of female mobility. Yet studies of women's intergenerational mobility are rare and tend not to focus on education. This article develops a historically informed gauge of educational attainment-the Educational Cohort Code (ECC). Applying that gauge to the experiences of w…
How is She Going to Manage with the Children?’ Organizational Labour, Working and Mothering in Britain, c .1960–1990
In the late 1980s, Pauline’s friends criticized her decision to retrain and work as an auxiliary nurse. She had been working one day per week for the preceding ten years, since her children were born: ‘You feel a bit defensive, because you know you’ve put all these systems in place. You know you’re doing it for yourself, but you also know there’s no way you would neglect your children’.1 Pauline’s defensiveness offers a glimpse into the behind-th…
Women, Education and Social Mobility in Britain during the Long 1970s
Through analysis of oral history interviews and quantitative source material, this article offers a gendered model of social mobility in the post-war decades. It argues that women born between the late 1930s and early 1950s achieved social mobility through entering post-secondary education after a period of employment, followed by occupational movement into the welfare professions. Women’s mobility primarily occurred in the long 1970s, facilitate…
Rags to Riches?’ New Histories of Social Mobility in Modern Britain - Introduction
Social mobility has, over the last decade, occupied a prominent position in public policy discourse. Over this period, and with particular intensity during the most recent years, politicians, chari
Programmed Inequality
This is a ground-breaking book that centres women as a class of labour in the history of computing in postwar Britain. In doing so, it demonstrates that technology can be used as a conservative force to entrench existing social hierarchies. Marie Hicks emphasizes that the history of British computing is especially tied up with the state, and therefore with the history of women as a growing proportion of state workers during the twentieth century.…
Beyond the Waves
In a recent influential article on the state of women's history, Josie McLellan noted ‘the urgency of de-centering Eurocentric perspectives’ (McLellan 2015: 5). This monograph constitutes an import
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite
Private schools have long played a crucial role in male elite formation but their importance to women’s trajectories is less clear. In this paper, we explore the relationship between girls’ private schools and elite recruitment in Britain over the past 120 years – drawing on the historical database of Who’s Who, a unique catalogue of the elite. We find that alumni of elite girls schools have been around 20 times more likely than other women to re…
I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’
This paper makes a major intervention in the historiography of elites through analysis of the experience of women occupational elites born in post-war Britain.The paper draws on a new set of oral history interviews recently conducted with women born in the post-war decades with an entry in Who's Who which is the leading biographical dictionary of 'noteworthy and influential' people in the UK.The women we interviewed were all highly occupationally…
How is She Going to Manage with the Children?’ Organizational Labour, Working and Mothering in Britain, c .1960–1990
In the late 1980s, Pauline’s friends criticized her decision to retrain and work as an auxiliary nurse. She had been working one day per week for the preceding ten years, since her children were born: ‘You feel a bit defensive, because you know you’ve put all these systems in place. You know you’re doing it for yourself, but you also know there’s no way you would neglect your children’.1 Pauline’s defensiveness offers a glimpse into the behind-th…
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales
The twentieth century saw substantial changes in the educational and occupational opportunities available to women in Britain. These may have been supposed to foster new patterns of female mobility. Yet studies of women's intergenerational mobility are rare and tend not to focus on education. This article develops a historically informed gauge of educational attainment-the Educational Cohort Code (ECC). Applying that gauge to the experiences of w…
Women, Education and Social Mobility in Britain during the Long 1970s
Through analysis of oral history interviews and quantitative source material, this article offers a gendered model of social mobility in the post-war decades. It argues that women born between the late 1930s and early 1950s achieved social mobility through entering post-secondary education after a period of employment, followed by occupational movement into the welfare professions. Women’s mobility primarily occurred in the long 1970s, facilitate…
Rags to Riches?’ New Histories of Social Mobility in Modern Britain - Introduction
Social mobility has, over the last decade, occupied a prominent position in public policy discourse. Over this period, and with particular intensity during the most recent years, politicians, chari
Programmed Inequality
This is a ground-breaking book that centres women as a class of labour in the history of computing in postwar Britain. In doing so, it demonstrates that technology can be used as a conservative force to entrench existing social hierarchies. Marie Hicks emphasizes that the history of British computing is especially tied up with the state, and therefore with the history of women as a growing proportion of state workers during the twentieth century.…
Ambivalent Agents
This article examines civil society organisations working to enhance social mobility in England, especially through higher education. Against the backdrop of neoliberal governance, we investigate whether these organisations operate as protective counter-movements resisting marketisation or as institutional mechanisms that stabilise the inequalities they aim to address. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's concept of the 'double movement' and Nancy Fraser's …
Beyond the Waves
In a recent influential article on the state of women's history, Josie McLellan noted ‘the urgency of de-centering Eurocentric perspectives’ (McLellan 2015: 5). This monograph constitutes an import
Programmed Inequality
This is a ground-breaking book that centres women as a class of labour in the history of computing in postwar Britain. In doing so, it demonstrates that technology can be used as a conservative force to entrench existing social hierarchies. Marie Hicks emphasizes that the history of British computing is especially tied up with the state, and therefore with the history of women as a growing proportion of state workers during the twentieth century.…
Women, Education and Social Mobility in Britain during the Long 1970s
Through analysis of oral history interviews and quantitative source material, this article offers a gendered model of social mobility in the post-war decades. It argues that women born between the late 1930s and early 1950s achieved social mobility through entering post-secondary education after a period of employment, followed by occupational movement into the welfare professions. Women’s mobility primarily occurred in the long 1970s, facilitate…
Rags to Riches?’ New Histories of Social Mobility in Modern Britain - Introduction
Social mobility has, over the last decade, occupied a prominent position in public policy discourse. Over this period, and with particular intensity during the most recent years, politicians, chari
How is She Going to Manage with the Children?’ Organizational Labour, Working and Mothering in Britain, c .1960–1990
In the late 1980s, Pauline’s friends criticized her decision to retrain and work as an auxiliary nurse. She had been working one day per week for the preceding ten years, since her children were born: ‘You feel a bit defensive, because you know you’ve put all these systems in place. You know you’re doing it for yourself, but you also know there’s no way you would neglect your children’.1 Pauline’s defensiveness offers a glimpse into the behind-th…
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales
The twentieth century saw substantial changes in the educational and occupational opportunities available to women in Britain. These may have been supposed to foster new patterns of female mobility. Yet studies of women's intergenerational mobility are rare and tend not to focus on education. This article develops a historically informed gauge of educational attainment-the Educational Cohort Code (ECC). Applying that gauge to the experiences of w…
I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’
This paper makes a major intervention in the historiography of elites through analysis of the experience of women occupational elites born in post-war Britain.The paper draws on a new set of oral history interviews recently conducted with women born in the post-war decades with an entry in Who's Who which is the leading biographical dictionary of 'noteworthy and influential' people in the UK.The women we interviewed were all highly occupationally…
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite
Private schools have long played a crucial role in male elite formation but their importance to women’s trajectories is less clear. In this paper, we explore the relationship between girls’ private schools and elite recruitment in Britain over the past 120 years – drawing on the historical database of Who’s Who, a unique catalogue of the elite. We find that alumni of elite girls schools have been around 20 times more likely than other women to re…
Transfer State
Journal Article Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain, by Peter Sloman Get access Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain, by Peter Sloman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. 318. £69). Eve Worth Eve Worth University of Exeter, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain
This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in the mid‐century are reflected in patterns of maternal occupation among matriculants, shifting from being…
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class
Ambivalent Agents
This article examines civil society organisations working to enhance social mobility in England, especially through higher education. Against the backdrop of neoliberal governance, we investigate whether these organisations operate as protective counter-movements resisting marketisation or as institutional mechanisms that stabilise the inequalities they aim to address. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's concept of the 'double movement' and Nancy Fraser's …
‘There’s no such thing as a girls’ public school; there are only types’
This article explores the complex eco-system of girls’ elite schooling in twentieth-century Britain using The Girls’ School Yearbook (GSYB)- a volume published by the Association of Headmistresses to provide information on the ‘leading girls’ public schools’. We undertake a Latent Class Analysis of the GSYB to draw out the underlying patterns in the nature of the schools. We make two central arguments, first that this analysis demonstrates the in…
Sociology (11 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Elite (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works)