Lara A Campbell

Respectable Citizens

Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780802096692
• ISBN-10: 0802096697
• Artikelnr.: 26816422

Autorenporträt

Lara Campbell

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: 'Giving all the good in me to save my children': Domestic
Labour, Motherhood, and 'Making Do' in Ontario Families
Chapter Two: 'If he is a man he becomes desperate': Unemployed Husbands,
Fathers, and Workers
Chapter Three: The Obligations of Family: Parents, Children's Labour, and
Youth Culture
Chapter Four: 'A Family's Self-Respect and Morale': Negotiating
Respectability and Conflict in Home and Family
Chapter Five: Militant Mothers and Loving Fathers: Gender, Family, and
Ethnicity in Protest
Conclusion: Survival, Citizenship, and State
Endnotes
Bibliography