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In the 1930s, the unemployed were organizing. Jobless workers felt they were entitled to a new kind of government protectionthe protection from undeserved unemployment and the financial straits that such unemployment created. They wanted dignified forms of relief (including work relief) during the Depression, and unemployment insurance after. Becoming Entitled artfully chronicles the emergence of this worker entitlement and the people who cultivated it. Abigail Trollinger focuses largely on Chicago after the Progressive Era, where the settlement house and labor movements both flourished. She shows how reformers joined workers and relief officials to redeem the unemployed and secure government-funded social insurance for them. Becoming Entitled also offers a critical reappraisal of New Deal social and economic changes, suggesting that the transformations of the 1930s came from reformers in the middle, who helped establish a limited form of entitlement for workers. Ultimately, Trolli

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      Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
      Published 18 September 2020
      ISBN-13 9781439919521
      978-1439919521
      ISBN-10 1439919526
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      Industrial relations, occupational health Poverty and precarity

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      Book Synopsis
      In the 1930s, the unemployed were organizing. Jobless workers felt they were entitled to a new kind of government protectionthe protection from undeserved unemployment and the financial straits that such unemployment created. They wanted dignified forms of relief (including work relief) during the Depression, and unemployment insurance after. Becoming Entitled artfully chronicles the emergence of this worker entitlement and the people who cultivated it. Abigail Trollinger focuses largely on Chicago after the Progressive Era, where the settlement house and labor movements both flourished. She shows how reformers joined workers and relief officials to redeem the unemployed and secure government-funded social insurance for them. Becoming Entitled also offers a critical reappraisal of New Deal social and economic changes, suggesting that the transformations of the 1930s came from reformers in the middle, who helped establish a limited form of entitlement for workers. Ultimately, Trolli

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