ISBN:
1442697415
,
9781442697416
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 280 p., [8] p. of plates)
,
ill., ports
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
Parallel Title:
Print version Respectable citizens
DDC:
305.9/06940971309043
Keywords:
Unemployed Social conditions 20th century
;
Unemployed Services for 20th century
;
History
;
Families Social conditions 20th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
Abstract:
Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s
Abstract:
"High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s." "Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada."--Jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
1. 'Giving All the Good in Me to Save My Children': Domestic Labour, Motherhood, and 'Making Do' in Ontario Families2. 'If He Is a Man He Becomes Desperate': Unemployed Husbands, Fathers, and Workers -- 3. Obligations of Family: Parents, Children's Labour, and Youth Culture -- 4. 'A Family's Self-Respect and Morale': Negotiating Respectability and Conflict in Home and Family -- 5. Militant Mothers and Loving Fathers: Gender, Family, and Ethnicity in Protest -- Conclusion: Survival, Citizenship, and State.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction
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