From Rights to Needs

A History of Family Allowances in Canada, 1929-92

von Raymond B Blake

380 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book explores the family allowance phenomenon from the idea's debut in the House of Commons in 1929 to the program's demise as a universal program under the Mulroney government in 1992. Although successive federal governments remained committed to its underlying principle of universality, party politics, bureaucracy, federal-provincial wrangling, and the shifting priorities of citizens eroded the rights-based approach to social security and replaced it with one based on need. In tracing the evolution of one social security program within a national perspective, From Rights to Needs sheds new light on how Canada's welfare state and social policy has been transformed over the past half century.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780774815734
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2009
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press