Welfare Reform in Canada : : Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective / / Daniel Béland, Pierre-Marc Daigneault.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Béland, Daniel ,; Daigneault, Pierre-Marc,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy. This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Understanding Welfare Reform in the Canadian Provinces -- one. International Trends in Social Assistance -- Two. Federal Policies, National Trends, and Provincial Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Developments in Social Assistance in Canada, 1990-2013 -- Three. An Overview of Social Assistance Trends in Canada -- Four. Low-Income and Inequality Trends in Canada -- Five. Social Assistance in Ontario -- Six. Québec: The Ambivalent Politics of Social Solidarity -- Seven. Social Assistance in British Columbia -- Eight. Social Assistance in Alberta -- Nine. Saskatchewan: Development, Reform, and Retrenchment -- Ten. Social Assistance in Manitoba -- Eleven. Social Assistance in New Brunswick: Origins, Developments, and the Current Situation -- Twelve. Social Assistance in Nova Scotia: Mainstreaming "Employability" and Cutting Costs in a New Single-Tier System -- Thirteen. Social Assistance in Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fourteen. Social Assistance in Prince Edward Island -- Fifteen. Gendering Social Assistance Reform -- Sixteen. Entrenched Residualism: Social Assistance and People with Disabilities -- Seventeen. Immigrants on Social Assistance in Canada: Who Are They and Why Are They There? -- Eighteen. Playing Catch-up with Ghosts: Income Assistance for First Nations on Reserve -- Nineteen. Aging and Social Assistance in the Provinces -- Twenty. Shelter and the Street: Housing, Homelessness, and Social Assistance in the Canadian Provinces -- Twenty-one. Do Active Programs Work? A Review of Canadian Welfare-to-Work Experiments -- Conclusion. A Brief Survey of Welfare Reform in the Canadian Provinces -- Postface. From Welfare Reform-to Welfare Reformulation -- Index