Becoming Entitled: Relief, Unemployment, and Reform during the Great Depression PDF
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Becoming Entitled Abigail Trollinger Becoming Entitled Relief, Unemployment, and Reform during the Great Depression TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia • Rome • Tokyo TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 tupress.temple.edu Copyright © 2020 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education All rights reserved Published 2020 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Trollinger, Abigail, 1982– author. Title: Becoming entitled : relief, unemployment, and reform during the Great Depression / Abigail Trollinger. Description: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020. | Includes biblio- graphical references and index. | Summary: “Becoming Entitled examines the Depression-era political and intellectual shifts that occurred at the city and state levels and ultimately enabled the passage of unemployment insurance in the United States, and the role played by local reformers and settlement leaders in bringing about these changes”—Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2019057720 (print) | LCCN 2019057721 (ebook) | ISBN 9781439919521 (cloth) | ISBN 9781439919538 (paperback) | ISBN 9781439919545 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Unemployment insurance—United States—History—20th century. | Unemployment—United States—Public opinion—History—20th century. | Unemployed—Services for—United States—History—20th century. | Social settlements—United States—History—20th century. | Social reformers— United States—History—20th century. | Unemployment insurance—Illinois— Chicago—History—20th century. | Unemployment—Illinois—Chicago—Public opinion—History—20th century. | Unemployed—Services for—Illinois— Chicago—History—20th century. | Social settlements—Illinois—Chicago— History—20th century. | Social reformers—Illinois—Chicago—History— 20th century. Classification: LCC HD7096.U6 T75 2020 (print) | LCC HD7096.U6 (ebook) | DDC 368.4/40097309043—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057720 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057721 c The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- 1992 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Millie and Eloise Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Entitlement in Historical Context 1 1 Revealing the “Social Consequences of Unemployment” 20 2 Charity, Relief, and Localism in Depression- Era Chicago 50 3 Charity and Entitlement 71 4 Entitled to Relief 96 5 Getting Relief from the Government 125 Epilogue: Still Entitled to Relief? 151 Appendix 1: Settlements and Other Organizations Cooperating in the Unemployment Study of the National Federation of Settlements 157 Appendix 2: Partial List of Members of the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment and Relief (GCUR) 161 Notes 163 Bibliography 195 Index 209 Acknowledgments B ecoming Entitled started as a dissertation and grew into this book, so I have accumulated many debts of gratitude over its years of existence. It began at Northwestern University with a recommendation from Henry Binford, an enthusiastic and thought- ful adviser who supported me in moments of doubt and steered me away from the pitfalls of overly simplistic analysis and unsubstanti- ated arguments. The members of my dissertation committee, Mi- chael Sherry and Susan Pearson, read countless drafts and offered valuable feedback time and again. More recently, editor Aaron Jav- sicas championed Becoming Entitled as a book, and he and Ashley Petrucci patiently and expertly guided me through the publishing process at Temple University Press. Becoming Entitled rests on the work and expertise of the archivists who made available to me the rich world of settlement work in the 1930s. I particularly want to thank Kevin Leonard and Janet Olson, who introduced me to the Northwestern University Settlement ar- chives and warmly welcomed me day after day. At the University of Minnesota’s Social Welfare History Archives, David Klassen offered financial assistance and critical insights into my research. I am also grateful to numerous archivists who helped me navigate settlement
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