Gendered States : : Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1997 / / Ann Porter.
In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and restructuring. Through a detailed historical account o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Gender and the Political Economy of the Welfare State: Theoretical Considerations
- PART I: Contradictions and Transformations in Families, Markets, and the Welfare State, 1940-1971
- 2. Gender and the Construction of the Postwar Welfare State
- 3. From Exclusion to Entitlement: Pregnancy, Maternity, and the Canadian State
- 4. Women into the Labour Force, UI Review, and Expansion
- PART II: On the Path to Neoliberalism: Gender, Crisis, and Restructuring
- 5. Social Reproduction in a Transition Period: Maternity, Rights, and Conceptions of Equality
- 6. Gender, Economic Crisis, and Welfare State Restructuring in the 1970s
- 7. The Conservatives in Power: A Polarized Debate and the Shift to a Market-Based Approach
- 8. Consolidating Neoliberal Reforms: Globalization, Multi-Earner Families, and the Erosion of State Support for the Unemployed
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index