Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: So Much Honest Poverty in Britain, 1870-1930
- ISBN-10
- 113739322X
- ISBN-13
- 9781137393227
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-22
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- M. Levine-Clark
Description
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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