Women and the Canadian Welfare State : : Challenges and Change /

Women and the Canadian Welfare State : : Challenges and Change / / ed. by Patricia Evans, Gerda Wekerle.

Canadians can no longer expect as much from their governments. Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit.The decline of the welfare state p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, Pat,
Boyd, Monica,
Cohen, Marjorie Griffin,
Daenzer, Patricia M.,
Evans, Patricia M.,
Findlay, Sue,
Lessard, Hester,
Luxton, Meg,
Maclean, Morag,
Mossman, Mary Jane,
Neysmith, Sheila M.,
Pupo, Norene,
Reiter, Ester,
Wekerle, Gerda R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Evans, Patricia,
Wekerle, Gerda,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Part I: Welfare State in Transition
  • 1. The Shifting Terrain of Women's Welfare: Theory, Discourse, and Activism
  • 2. From the Welfare State to Vampire Capitalism
  • Part II: Challenging the Bases of Claims
  • 3. Creation Stories: Social Rights and Canada's Constitution
  • 4. Divided Citizenship? Gender, Income Security, and the Welfare State
  • 5. Family Law and Social Assistance Programs: Rethinking Equality
  • 6. Migration Policy, Female Dependency, and Family Membership: Canada and Germany
  • 7. The Shift to the Market: Gender and Housing Disadvantage
  • Part III: Women's Work and the State
  • 8. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble , Women's Experience of Work and Family in Canada, 1980-1995
  • 9. Towards a Woman-Friendly Long-Term Care Policy
  • 10. The State and Pay Equity: Juggling Similarity and Difference, Meaning, and Structures
  • Part IV: Women Challenging the Welfare State
  • 11. Challenging Diversity: Black Women and Social Welfare
  • 12. Women, Unions, and the State: Challenges Ahead
  • 13. Institutionalizing Feminist Politics: Learning from the Struggles for Equal Pay in Ontario

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