Title Respectable citizens : gender, family, and unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression / Lara Campbell

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits Series Studies in gender and history Studies in gender and history. Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes 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 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Unemployed -- Ontario -- Social conditions -- 20th century Women -- Ontario -- Social conditions -- 20th century Families -- Ontario -- Social conditions -- 20th century Unemployed -- Services for -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Unemployed -- Services for -- Ontario -- 20th century HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Families Unemployed -- Services for Unemployed -- Social conditions Women -- Social conditions Depression Wirtschaft Arbeitslosigkeit Armut Soziale Situation Ontario Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442697416 1442697415 9781442697041 1442697040

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