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This first volume, The Meanings of Work, will include sources that identify The Long History Toil, which demonstrate that vagrancy and idleness went against constructions of the English, then British…
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This volume explores questions surrounding what types of assistance were available to people out of work and who should receive that assistance during the nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial…
This volume explores the idea of unemployment, referring to a structural problem that caused ‘genuine workmen’ to be temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own. Accompanied by extensive editorial…
This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of ‘unemployment’. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary…
Marjorie Levine-Clark
Appealing to audiences interested in the histories of medicine, women, gender, labor, and social policy, Beyond the Reproductive Body examines women’s health in relation to work in early Victorian England…
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It was not until the last quarter of the 19thcentury that policy makers starting thinking about unemployment as a structural problem of the economy that caused people to be out…
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