Respectable citizens : gender, family, and unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression /
Campbell, Lara, 1970-
Respectable citizens : gender, family, and unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression / Lara Campbell. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits - Studies in gender and history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. 'Giving All the Good in Me to Save My Children': Domestic Labour, Motherhood, and 'Making Do' in Ontario Families -- 2. 'If He Is a Man He Becomes Desperate': Unemployed Husbands, Fathers, and Workers -- 3. Obligations of Family: Parents, Children's Labour, and Youth Culture -- 4. 'A Family's Self-Respect and Morale': Negotiating Respectability and Conflict in Home and Family -- 5. Militant Mothers and Loving Fathers: Gender, Family, and Ethnicity in Protest -- Conclusion: Survival, Citizenship, and State.
"High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. 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." "Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada."--Jacket
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781442697416 9781442697041
20099032945
Unemployed--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.
Women--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.
Families--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.
Unemployed--Services for--History--Ontario--20th century.
Unemployed--Services for--Ontario--20th century.
Electronic Books.
HB3717 1929 / .R477 2009
Respectable citizens : gender, family, and unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression / Lara Campbell. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits - Studies in gender and history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. 'Giving All the Good in Me to Save My Children': Domestic Labour, Motherhood, and 'Making Do' in Ontario Families -- 2. 'If He Is a Man He Becomes Desperate': Unemployed Husbands, Fathers, and Workers -- 3. Obligations of Family: Parents, Children's Labour, and Youth Culture -- 4. 'A Family's Self-Respect and Morale': Negotiating Respectability and Conflict in Home and Family -- 5. Militant Mothers and Loving Fathers: Gender, Family, and Ethnicity in Protest -- Conclusion: Survival, Citizenship, and State.
"High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. 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." "Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada."--Jacket
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781442697416 9781442697041
20099032945
Unemployed--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.
Women--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.
Families--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.
Unemployed--Services for--History--Ontario--20th century.
Unemployed--Services for--Ontario--20th century.
Electronic Books.
HB3717 1929 / .R477 2009