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Unemployment, welfare, and masculine citizenship : "so much honest poverty" in Britain, 1870-1930 /
In the late nineteenth century, the extent of unemployment in Britain challenged prevailing ideologies that insisted on men's economic independence and blamed the poor for their poverty. With increasing numbers of newly-enfranchised men who had been regular workers applying for humiliating poor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Colección: | Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1.'So Much Honest Poverty': Introduction
- PART I: UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE CONTINUITIES OF HONEST POVERTY
- 2. Not 'Weary Willies' or 'Tired Tims': The Work Imperative in the Poor Law World
- 3.'They were not Single Men': Responsibility for Family and Hierarchies of Deservedness
- 4.'A Reward for Good Citizenship': National Unemployment Benefits and the Genuine Search for Work
- PART II: HONEST POVERTY IN NATIONAL CRISIS
- 5.'Married Men had Greater Responsibilities': The First World War, the Service Imperative, and the Sacrifice of Single Men
- 6.'The Whole World had gone Against Them': Ex-Servicemen and the Politics of Relief
- 7.'No Right to Relieve a Striker': Trade Disputes and the Politics of Work and Family in the 1920s
- PART III: HONEST POVERTY AND THE INTIMACIES OF POLICY
- 8.'Younger Men are given the Preference': Older Men's Welfare and Intergenerational Liability
- 9.'He did not Realise his Responsibilities': Giving Up the Privileges of Honest Poverty
- Conclusions.