This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommod...
Throughout the entire period covered by this collection, in order to receive assistance when unemployed (whether through the Poor Law or government public works...
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 ...
This volume includes primary sources that identify "The Long History Toil," which demonstrate that vagrancy and idleness went against constructions of the Engli...
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 "unempl...
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary...