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Welfare Reform in Canada : Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective
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- Summary
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Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late 20th century.
Details
- Creator
- Daniel Béland, Pierre-Marc Daigneault
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (446 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1442609745, 1442609710, 1442609737, 1442609729, 9781442609747, 9781442609730
- OCLC
- on1163877880, ocn939262083, ocn901993646
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction : Understanding welfare reform in the Canadian Provinces / Pierre-Marc Daigneault and Daniel Beland -- International trends in social assistance / Robert Henry Cox -- Federal policies, national trends, and provincial systems : a comparative analysis of recent developments in social assistance in Canada, 1990-2013 / Gerard W. Boychuk -- An overview of social assistance trends in Canada / Ronald Kneebone and Katherine White -- Low-income and inequality trends in Canada / Brian Murphy, Andrew Heisz, and Xuelin Zhang -- Social assistance in Ontario / Peter Graefe -- Quebec : the ambivalent politics of social solidarity / Alain Noël -- Social assistance in British Columbia / Jane Pulkingham -- Social assistance in Alberta / Donna E. Wood -- Saskatchewan : development, reform, and retrenchment / Rick August -- Social assistance in Manitoba / Wayne Simpson -- Social assistance in New Brunswick : origins, developments, and the current situation / Luc Theriault and Helene Lebreton -- Social assistance in Nova Scotia : mainstreaming "employability" and cutting costs in a new single-tier system / Stella Lord -- Social assistance in Newfoundland and Labrador / Matthieu Mondou -- Social assistance in Prince Edward Island / Kathleen Flanagan -- Gendering social assistance reform / Amber Gazso -- Entrenched residualism : social assistance and people with disabilities / Michael J. Prince -- Immigrants on social assistance in Canada : who are they and why are they there? / Tracy Smith-Carrier and Jennifer Mitchell -- Playing catch-up with ghosts : income assistance for first nations on reserve / Martin Papillon -- Aging and social assistance in the provinces / Patrik Marier and Anne-Marie Seguin -- Shelter and the street : housing, homelessness, and social assistance in the Canadian provinces / Michael J. Prince -- Do active programs work? A review of Canadian welfare-to-work experiments / Kelly Foley -- Conclusion : A brief survey of welfare reform in the Canadian provinces / Daniel Beland and Pierre-Marc Daigneault -- Postface : From welfare reform -- to welfare reformulation / Sherri Torjman and Ken Battle