Breadwinners and Citizens

Informationen zum Autor Laura Levine Frader Klappentext "In this valuable book, Laura Levine Frader focuses on the French social model, the ideal of egalitarian social citizenship shaped and refined in the first half of the twentieth century. She argues that it was systematically undermined by employers, organized labor, and the state itself through practices and policies that built into it gender and anti-immigrant biases. Her insights, methods, and conclusions will be interesting to historians of other industrial societies whose welfare states are today under challenge from women and immigrant workers seeking equality of treatment."--Herman Lebovics, SUNY Trustees Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, author of "Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age" Zusammenfassung Laura Levine Frader advances the argument that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars have typically recognized. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model 1 1. Reconstruction and Regeneration after World War I 15 2. Gender Division, the Family, and the Citizen-Worker 51 3. Managing the Human Factor 103 4. Organized Labor, Rationalization, and Breadwinners 139 5. Toward the Social Model: Citizenship, Rights, and Social Provision 169 6. Economic Rights and the Gender of Breadwinners: The Depression of the 1930s 193 Conclusion 229 Notes 241 Bibliography 301 Index 335

Autorentext

Laura Levine Frader

Klappentext

"In this valuable book, Laura Levine Frader focuses on the French social model, the ideal of egalitarian social citizenship shaped and refined in the first half of the twentieth century. She argues that it was systematically undermined by employers, organized labor, and the state itself through practices and policies that built into it gender and anti-immigrant biases. Her insights, methods, and conclusions will be interesting to historians of other industrial societies whose welfare states are today under challenge from women and immigrant workers seeking equality of treatment."--Herman Lebovics, SUNY Trustees Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, author of "Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age"

Zusammenfassung
Laura Levine Frader advances the argument that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars have typically recognized.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model 1

1. Reconstruction and Regeneration after World War I 15
2. Gender Division, the Family, and the Citizen-Worker 51
3. Managing the Human Factor 103
4. Organized Labor, Rationalization, and Breadwinners 139
5. Toward the Social Model: Citizenship, Rights, and Social Provision 169
6. Economic Rights and the Gender of Breadwinners: The Depression of the 1930s 193
   Conclusion 229
   Notes 241
   Bibliography 301
   Index 335