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100	1		_aLevine-Clark, M.
245	1	0	_aUnemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship : _bSo Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870-1930.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan UK, _c2015.
264		4	_c©2015.
300			_a1 online resource (320 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aGenders and Sexualities in History Series
505	0		_aCover -- 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.
505	8		_aFamily 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.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aSocial history.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aLevine-Clark, M. _tUnemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship _dLondon : Palgrave Macmillan UK,c2015 _z9781137393203
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aGenders and Sexualities in History Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4000860 _zClick to View
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