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Unemployment, welfare, and masculine citizenship : "so much honest poverty" in Britain, 1870-1930 / Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado Denver, USA.
Lippincott Library HD5765.A6 L48 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine-Clark, Marjorie, author.
- Series:
- Genders and sexualities in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--Employment--Great Britain.
- Men.
- Poverty--Great Britain.
- Poverty.
- Unemployment--Great Britain.
- Unemployment.
- Men--Employment.
- Great Britain.
- Public welfare--Great Britain--History.
- Public welfare.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 "So Much Honest Poverty": Introduction 1
- Unemployment and welfare 3
- Masculine citizenship 6
- Black Country contexts 10
- Structure and sources 17
- Part I Unemployment and the Continuities of Honest Poverty
- 2 Not "Weary Willies" or "Tired Tims": The Work Imperative in the Poor Law World 25
- The Poor Law and the Labour Test 27
- Task work versus work relief 32
- The growing honest poor/pauper dichotomy 35
- The nation in the poor law world 38
- The poor law world overwhelmed 42
- Conclusion 49
- 3 "They were not single men": Responsibility for Family and Hierarchies of Deservedness 50
- Profiles of poor law applicants 52
- Constructing married men's privilege 62
- Family liability in the politics of unemployed men 67
- Family liability in crisis 70
- Men's unemployment and women's work 77
- Conclusion 80
- 4 "A reward for good citizenship": National Unemployment Benefits and the Genuine Search for Work 82
- The development of national unemployment benefits 84
- Genuine work and suitable employment 91
- Work history and skill 93
- Respectability and women's work 96
- Family liability and the gendered search for suitable employment 98
- Conclusion 105
- 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 109
- Constituting the service imperative 111
- The single and the married 116
- Family liability as national service 124
- Conclusion 136
- 6 "The whole world had gone against them": Ex-Servicemen and the Politics of Relief 138
- Ex-servicemen and the poor law 140
- The politics of preference 147
- Out-of-Work Donation 148
- Preferential hiring 152
- A local context 156
- Conclusion 158
- 7 "No right to relieve a striker": Trade Disputes and the Politics of Work and Family in the 1920s 159
- Family welfare and the Merthyr Tydfil decision 160
- Definitions of work and family welfare 169
- Striking men and unemployment benefit 172
- Back to work? 177
- Conclusion 179
- Part III Honest Poverty and the Intimacies of Policy
- 8 "Younger men are given the preference": Older Men's Welfare and Intergenerational Responsibilities 183
- Expectations of intergenerational liability 184
- The liability of sons 188
- The invisibility of daughters 193
- Old age pensions 197
- Conclusion 204
- 9 "He did not realise his responsibilities": Giving Up the Privileges of Honest Poverty 206
- Neglectful husbands and women's poor law relief 209
- Liability and the law 210
- The domestic politics of family liability 214
- Men's work and women's maintenance 218
- Maintenance as an imperial problem 223
- Conclusion 230.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137393203
- 1137393203
- OCLC:
- 889175461
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