Chapter 1 “So Much Honest Poverty”: Introduction

Chapter 2 Not “Weary Willies” or “Tired Tims”: The Work Imperative in the Poor Law World

Chapter 3 “They were not single men”: Responsibility for Family and Hierarchies of Deservedness

Chapter 5 “Married men had greater responsibilities”: The First World War, the Service Imperative, and the Sacrifice of Single Men

Chapter 6 “The whole world had gone against them”: Ex-Servicemen and the Politics of Relief

Chapter 7 “No right to relieve a striker”: Trade Disputes and the Politics of Work and Family in the 1920s

Chapter 8 “Younger men are given the preference”: Older Men’s Welfare and Intergenerational Responsibilities

Chapter 9 “He did not realise his responsibilities”: Giving Up the Privileges of Honest Poverty

Chapter 10 Conclusions