TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levine-Clark,M.
TI  - Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870-1930
T2  - Genders and Sexualities in History Series
SN  - 9781137393227
AV  - HN 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK
KW  - Social history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
N2  - This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommodate men's dependence on the state within understandings of masculine citizenship
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