Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism : : Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth /

Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism : : Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth / / ed. by Jane Pulkingham.

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J.S. Woodsworth, a founding member and leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (forerunner of the New Democratic Party) and member of Parliament, was a social policy pioneer who promoted human welfare and rights over interests of property or finance. The essays in Human Welfare, Rights, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Brodsky, Gwen,
Chariandy, David,
Coleman, Daniel,
Elliott, Denielle,
McLeod, Neal,
Mills, Allen,
Nicholson, Cecily,
Polanco, Geraldina,
Pulkingham, Jane,
Schneiderman, David,
Shewell, Hugh,
Teeple, Gary,
Tucker, Eric,
HerausgeberIn:
Pulkingham, Jane,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2010
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • 1. A Common Interest? Reflections on the Social Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth and the Contemporary Politics of Social Change in Canada
  • 2. The Historical Woodsworth and Contemporary Politics
  • 3. Labour Rights in an Interregnum: The Ambiguous Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
  • 4. The Changing Struggle for Rights: A Critical Look at the Origins and Fate of Human Rights
  • 5. Social Rights Are Human Rights: Furthering the Democratic Project
  • 6. Human Rights and Poverty: A Twenty-First Century Tribute to J.S. Woodsworth and Call for Human Rights
  • 7. Human Needs above Property Rights? Rethinking the Woodsworth Legacy in an Era of Economic Globalization
  • 8. Zones of Abandonment: The Cultural Politics of Public Health in Vancouver's Inner City
  • 9. 'Re-construction' from the Viewpoint of Precarious Labour: The Practice of Solidarity
  • 10. J.S. Woodsworth and the Discourse of White Civility
  • 11. Embodied Memory: Universal Citizenship and Indigenous Cree Identity
  • 12. Canadians of Tomorrow: J.S. Woodsworth and the New Ethnicities
  • Index

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