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Child poverty and the Canadian welfare state : from entitlement to charity / Shereen Ismael.
- Title
- Child poverty and the Canadian welfare state : from entitlement to charity / Shereen Ismael.
- Author
- Ismael, Shereen T.
- Publication
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 111 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: From Entitlement to Charity represents an effort to understand the changes in social policy that normalize the existence of child poverty in a rich society like Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The problem of child poverty in Canada -- Scope of child poverty in Canada : facts and perspectives -- Nature of child poverty in Canada : measurement and meaning -- Impact of child poverty : significance and assessment -- Federal social policy and child poverty -- 2. The Canadian welfare state and the growth of entitlement -- Nature and scope of welfare benefits -- Post-depression round -- War on poverty round -- Control of the process of social policy determination -- 3. The residual state and the mobilization of charity -- Child poverty round -- Child development round -- Significance of child poverty -- 4. Child poverty and changing federal policy -- Child poverty in context -- Changing federal social policy -- Child poverty in the residual state -- 5. Social policy reform and the normalization of child poverty -- Social policy reform -- Normalization of child poverty -- From entitlement to charity.
- ISBN
- 0888644612 (pbk.)
- 9780888644619 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007405443
- OCLC
- 71288172
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library