ISBN:
9780802099747
,
9780802096692
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 280 S., [4] Bl.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history 33
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
DDC:
305.906940971309043
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1930-1940
;
Unemployed / Ontario / Social conditions / 20th century
;
Women / Ontario / Social conditions / 20th century
;
Families / Ontario / 20th century
;
Unemployed / Services for / Ontario / History / 20th century
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Wirtschaft
;
Families 20th century
;
Unemployed Services for 20th century
;
History
;
Unemployed Social conditions 20th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Depression
;
Soziale Situation
;
Arbeitslosigkeit
;
Armut
;
Ontario / Economic conditions / 1918-1945
;
Ontario / Social conditions / 1918-1945
;
Ontario / History / 1918-1945
;
Ontario Economic conditions 1918-1945
;
Ontario History 1918-1945
;
Ontario Social conditions 1918-1945
;
Ontario
;
Ontario
;
Depression
;
Arbeitslosigkeit
;
Armut
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte 1930-1940
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
