Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-180) and index.
Contents:
Limits and possibilities of social citizenship : the gendered boundaries of national insurance and unemployment benefit -- "Not the normal mode of maintenance" : bureaucratic resistance to the claims of lone women -- Reform and deterrence : the National Assistance Board's strategies for unemployed men -- Paradoxes of imperialism : immigration, welfare, and citizenship -- "Dirt, degradation, and disorder" : housing the homeless in London.
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