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Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship
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.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Work and Unemployment 1834-1911
Throughout the entire period covered by this collection, in order to receive assistance when unemployed (whether through the Poor Law or government public works or unemployment insurance), people (men, most often) had to have a positive relationship to paid employment. This is the subject of Propose... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Work and Unemployment 1834-1911
It was not until the last quarter of the nineteenth century that policy makers starting thinking about unemployment as a structural problem of the economy that caused people to be out of work – jobs simply did not exist for people who were looking for them. Encountering Unemployment is set in this t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Work and Unemployment 1834-1911
This volume includes primary sources that identify "The Long History Toil," which demonstrate that vagrancy and idleness went against constructions of the English, then British, character. While the state as early as Tudor times made provision to assist unemployed persons, in order to receive assist... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Work and Unemployment 1834-1911
Before the 1880s, people referred to an individual out of work as being unemployed or described a group of workers without jobs as "the unemployed," but "unemployment" was not the cause of the unemployed state. Rather, those with the power to assist unemployed people regarded individuals without job... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014