Description
Book SynopsisRespectable 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.
Trade Review'Respectable Citizens offers a vivid analysis of a unique period in Canadian history that has been rarely studied through a gendered lens... a thought-provoking read, offering rich glimpses of the past as well as striking parallels to the present day.' -- Karen Hughes Canadian Journal of Sociology; vol35:04:2010 'Respectable Citizens is an invaluable resource to those who study the Great Depression in Canada precisely because its many observations lead to many opportunities for further exploration.' -- Neal Adolph Histoire sociale / Social History, vol 47:95:2014
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
