'With Courage and Energy': Military masculinities and Civilian Transitions in the British Corps of Commissionaires, 1859-1914

本研究的主题是专员军团，成立于1859年的组织，致力于确保英国退役军人（无论是身体健全的还是残疾的）在离开军队时的民事就业;本研究的时间重点是1859年至1914年。该军团在准军事路线上运作，这严重影响了其组织身份。通过采用R.W.康奈尔的霸权男性气质的概念，沿着组织分析的方法，本研究将探讨军团的男性化身份的起源，这是如何保持在其雇员的身体，commissionaires，以及它是如何被提升到男人的潜在雇主。此外，报告还将分析这些因素可能如何影响委员们的职业和个人轨迹。通过坐在军事，商业和社会历史之间的交叉点，这项研究将开辟新的研究领域，在奖学金周围的英国退役军人的经验，以及奖学金，在十九世纪和二十世纪初处理英国男子气概。这将通过三种方式实现。首先，本研究的时间段将允许了解是否改变退伍军人的概念，通过战争带来的，决定了军团及其委员的命运。第二，在分析身体健全和残疾的退役军人的经历时，它将审查在主流中就业所发挥的作用，即：非康复工作场所，在配置他们的男性身份。第三，它将调查男性化的组织身份和商业惯例之间的联系。

The subject of this study is the Corps of Commissionaires, an organisation founded in 1859, and which was devoted to securing civil employment for British ex-servicemen - both able-bodied and disabled- on their leaving the military; the temporal focus of the study is 1859-1914. The Corps operated on quasi-military lines which critically influenced its organisational identity. Through adopting an approach informed by R.W.Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity, along with organisational analysis, this study will examine the genesis of the Corps' masculinised identity, how this was maintained within the body of its employees, the commissionaires, and how it was promoted to the men's potential employers. In addition, it will analyse how these factors might have influenced the professional and personal trajectories of the commissionaires. Through sitting at the intersection between military, business and social history, this study will open up new areas of enquiry in the scholarship surrounding the experiences of British ex-servicemen, as well as scholarship that deals with British masculinity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This will be achieved in three ways. First, the time period of this study will allow for an understanding of whether changing conceptions of ex-servicemen, brought about through war, determined the fortunes of the Corps and its commissionaires. Second, in analysing the experiences of able-bodied and disabled ex-servicemen, it will examine the role played by employment within the mainstream - i.e.: non-rehabilitative- workplace, in configuring their masculine identities. Third, it will investigate the connections between masculinised organisational identity and business practices.