Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: 'Giving all the good in me to save my children': Domestic Labour, Motherhood, and 'Making Do' in Ontario Families
Chapter Two: 'If he is a man he becomes desperate': Unemployed Husbands, Fathers, and Workers
Chapter Three: The Obligations of Family: Parents, Children's Labour, and Youth Culture
Chapter Four: 'A Family's Self-Respect and Morale': Negotiating Respectability and Conflict in Home and Family
Chapter Five: Militant Mothers and Loving Fathers: Gender, Family, and Ethnicity in Protest
Conclusion: Survival, Citizenship, and State
Endnotes
Bibliography