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Informationen zum Autor Lara Campbell is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
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Lara Campbell is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.
