Workfare : : Ideology for a New Under-class / / ed. by Eric Shragge.

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class reveals the double standards of Neo-Liberal "newspeak." The federal government spends almost the same amount of money on tax exemptions for RRSP deductions as federal and provincial governments combined spend on welfare. But, no one asks if people r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1997
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Workfare: An Overview
  • The Politics Of Workfare: NB Works
  • Workfare in Quebec
  • 'It's Not a Walk in the Park': Workfare in Ontario
  • Alberta and the Workfare Myth
  • Workfare in the U.S.: Empirically-Tested Programs or Ideological Quagmire?
  • Resisting Workfare
  • Bibliography