Unemployment, welfare, and masculine citizenship : "so much honest poverty" in Britain, 1870-1930 /: "so much honest poverty" in Britain, 1870-1930. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado Denver, USA.
• Authors: Levine-Clark, Marjorie
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 304 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 331.5/61; Men -- Employment -- Great Britain; Poverty -- Great Britain; Unemployment -- Great Britain; Public welfare -- Great Britain -- History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Men -- Employment; Poverty; Public welfare; Unemployment; Arbeitslosigkeit; Soziale Wohlfahrt; Männlichkeit; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137393227
• Related ISBNs: 113739322X; 9781349483556; 1349483559; 9781137393203; 1137393203
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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