Blind Workers against Charity
The National League of the Blind of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893-1970
(Sprache: Englisch)
Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance...
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Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Blind Workers against Charity “
1. New Union or Poor People's Movement? Building the National League of the Blind 2. 'Justice not Charity': Framing the Message 3. Mutually Exclusive Principles? Trade Unionism and Charity 4. The Limits of Radicalism: Politics and Protest in the 1920s and 30s 5. Success at Last? The League and the Consolidation of the Welfare State 6. A Changing Relationship: The League and Charity in the Post-War Era
Autoren-Porträt von M. Reiß
Matthias Reiss is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on the experience of marginalised groups in history, such as the unemployed, prisoners of war and African Americans. His current research focuses on street protest and social movements from the nineteenth century to the present.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: M. Reiß
- 2015, 259 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137364467
- ISBN-13: 9781137364463
Sprache:
Englisch
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