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.
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