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Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870-1930
Marjorie Levine-Clark
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Paperback. 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. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349483556
SKU
V9781349483556
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99-15
About Marjorie Levine-Clark
Marjorie Levine-Clark is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. She has published widely on gender, health, labor, and social policy in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, including the book Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England (2004).
Reviews for Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870-1930
Marjorie Levine-Clark opens her account of unemployment and masculinity with a comparison to the present. ... the author provides a nuanced analysis of gender during the era of the contested discovery of unemployment. Overall, this is a well-researched and well-written book, and it makes an important contribution to British welfare history. (Matt Perry, The American Historical Review, Vol. 121 ... Read more