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Title

Social welfare policy in Canada : historical readings / edited by Raymond B. Blake and Jeff Keshen.

Publication

Toronto : Copp Clark, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blake, Raymond Benjamin
• Keshen, Jeff, 1962-

Description

viii, 397 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 1867-1952
• Public welfare > Canada > History
• Welfare state
• Aide sociale > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle
• État providence
• World War I
• History, 20th Century > Canada
• Public Health > history > Canada
• Health Services, Indigenous > history > Canada
• Rehabilitation > history > Canada
• Occupational Therapy > history > Canada
• Veterans > history > Canada
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history > Canada
• Workers' Compensation > history > Canada
• Canada > Social policy
• Canada > Politique sociale
• Canada

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-397).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section 1: Ideas of the Welfare State: The Origin of the Social Welfare State in Canada, 1867-1900 / Elizabeth Wallace -- Medical Science and Social Criticism: Alexander Peter Reid and the Ideological Origins of the Welfare State in Canada / Colin D. Howell Section 2: Patterns of Early State Intervention: "Hastening the Day of Extinction": Canada, Quebec, and the Medical Care of Ungava's Inuit, 1867-1967 / Walter J. Vanast -- "Noblest and Best": Retraining Canada's War Disabled, 1915-1923 / Desmond Morton -- The newfoundland Old Age Pension Program, 1911-1949 / James G. Snell -- Blood an the Factory Floor: The Workers' Compensation Movement in Canada and the United States / Robert H. Babcock -- "Wages for Housework": Mothers' Allowances and the Beginnings of Social Security in Canada / Veronica Strong-Boag -- "Not to Punish But to reform": Juvenile Delinquency and the Children's Protection Act in Alberta, 1909-1929 / Rebecca Coulter -- The Quebec Government and Social Legislations During the 1930s: A Study in Political Self-Destruction / B.L. Vigod Section 3. World War II; The Critical years: Economic Thought in the 1930s: The Prelude to Keynesianism / Doug Owram -- Canadian Fabians: The Work and Thought of Harry Cassidy and Leonard Marsh, 1930-1945 / Allan Irving -- Origins of the Welfare State in Canada / Alvin Finkel -- Mackenzie King and the Genesis of Family Allowances in Canada, 1939-1944 Section 4: The Flowering of State Welfare: Workers, Mothers, Reds: Toronto's Postwar Daycare Fight / Susan Prentice -- W.C. Clark and the Politics of Canadian Housing Policy, 1935-1952 / Susan Prentice -- "An Inalienable Right": The CCF and rapid Health Care reform, 1944-1948 / Duane Mombourquette -- The Canadian Health care System: A Developmental Overview / Eugene Vayda and Raisa B. Deber -- The Canadian Assistance Plan: The Ultimate in Co-operative Federalism / Rand Dyck Section 5. Contemporary Trends: The Federal Welfare State and the Politics of Retrenchment in Canada / Bruce Smardon -- Restructuring Family Allowances: "Good Politics at No Cost?" / Andrew F. Johnson -- The Program of the Spallumcheen Indian Band in British Columbia as a Model of Indian Child Welfare / John A. MacDonald

ISBN

0773054480 :

LCCN

^^^95167911^//r96

OCLC

31776741

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library