ISBN:
9781137393203
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p)
Series Statement:
Genders and Sexualities in History
Parallel Title:
Print version Levine-Clark, M Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship : So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870-1930
DDC:
305.3823
Keywords:
Social history
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Social history
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 ""So Much Honest Poverty"": Introduction -- Unemployment and welfare -- Masculine citizenship -- Black Country contexts -- Structure and sources -- Part I: Unemployment and the Continuities of Honest Poverty -- 2 Not ""Weary Willies"" or ""Tired Tims"": The Work Imperative in the Poor Law World -- The Poor Law and the Labour Test -- Task work versus work relief -- The growing honest poor/pauper dichotomy -- The nation in the poor law world -- The poor law world overwhelmed -- Conclusion
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3 ""They were not single men"": Responsibility for Family and Hierarchies of Deservedness -- Profiles of poor law applicants -- Constructing married men's privilege -- Family liability in the politics of unemployed men -- Family liability in crisis -- Men's unemployment and women's work -- Conclusion -- 4 ""A reward for good citizenship"": National Unemployment Benefits and the Genuine Search for Work -- The development of national unemployment benefits -- Genuine work and suitable employment -- Work history and skill -- Respectability and women's work
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Family liability and the gendered search for suitable employment -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Constituting the service imperative -- The single and the married -- Family liability as national service -- Conclusion -- 6 ""The whole world had gone against them"": Ex-Servicemen and the Politics of Relief -- Ex-servicemen and the poor law -- The politics of preference -- Out-of-Work Donation -- Preferential hiring -- A local context
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Conclusion -- 7 ""No right to relieve a striker"": Trade Disputes and the Politics of Work and Family in the 1920s -- Family welfare and the Merthyr Tydfil decision -- Definitions of work and family welfare -- Striking men and unemployment benefit -- Back to work? -- Conclusion -- Part III: Honest Poverty and the Intimacies of Policy -- 8 ""Younger men are given the preference"": Older Men's Welfare and Intergenerational Responsibilities -- Expectations of intergenerational liability -- The liability of sons -- The invisibility of daughters -- Old age pensions -- Conclusion
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9 ""He did not realise his responsibilities"": Giving Up the Privileges of Honest Poverty -- Neglectful husbands and women's poor law relief -- Liability and the law -- The domestic politics of family liability -- Men's work and women's maintenance -- Maintenance as an imperial problem -- Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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