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A Canadian Priorities Agenda

Author : France St-Hilaire
Publisher : IRPP
ISBN 13 : 9780886452032
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Canadian Priorities Agenda written by France St-Hilaire and published by IRPP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising income inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in Canada in recent years, yet there is still much to learn about the economic forces driving the distribution of earnings and income in this country and how they might evolve in the future. With research showing that the tax-and-transfer system is losing the ability to counteract income disparity, the need for policy-makers to understand the factors at play is all the more urgent. Income Inequality provides a comprehensive review of Canadian inequality trends, including changing earnings and income dynamics among the middle class and top earners, wage and job polarization across provinces, and persistent poverty among vulnerable groups. The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), in collaboration with the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN), presents new evidence by some of the country’s leading experts on the impact of skills and education, unionization and labour relations laws, as well as the complex interplay of redistributive policies and politics over time. Amid growing anxieties about the economic prospects of the middle class, Income Inequality will serve to inform the public discourse on inequality, an issue that ultimately concerns all Canadians.

Canadian Education

Author : Brenda L. Spencer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460918611
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Education written by Brenda L. Spencer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is an absolutely critical volume bridging a number of key areas in Canadian education – classroom politics, schools, teachers’ work, higher education, and much more – with the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault. The result is illuminating, engaging, and critically provocative. The essays are carefully chosen and utilize Foucauldian concepts such as governmentality, discipline, subjectivity, and genealogy to excellent critical effect. With a skillfully crafted introduction that nicely brings the entire collection into sharp focus, the editors have provided a text that is a must read for critical scholars and students alike. Mona Gleason, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia This excellent text presents a Foucauldian analysis of selected educational practices, contemporary reform initiatives, and current educational policy, in the Canadian context. The authors demonstrate how rich theoretical constructs such as bio-power, governmentality and disciplinary power can illuminate everyday practices and policies, making “the cultural unconscious apparent” (Fouacult, 1989, p. 71). Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is essentially a hopeful book: it demonstrates the radicalizing role of theory as we try to understand and complicate educational structures and processes. This is an essential text for all those interested in Foucauldian analyses of education and a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in Canadian faculties of education. Anne M. Phelan, University of British Columbia This volume is most useful in the ways in which it achieves a close look and a wide sweep of education policy, its deployment and its effects, as these are embedded in schooling practices, educational strategies, and pedagogy. It offers the ground from which to consider the potential for education to be aimed at the development of a socially just citizenry while also helping to reveal the structures of power and processes of social control that operate within current neoliberal technologies of governmentality. It is against these that reform-minded educators and curriculum and policy developers can set themselves. While theoretically complex and original in its conceptual approach, this book is also practically informative and eminently readable, making it useful to teachers, school administrators, education policy developers, parents, students, and communities at all levels of the schooling spectrum.” Magda Lewis, PhD. Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s University, Kingston. Magda Lewis, Ph.D. Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s University, Kingston

Refugees in Canada

Author : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030764532
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Refugees in Canada written by Thomas Ricento and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society. Combining data gleaned from a longitudinal study of relatively recently arrived refugees in Calgary, Canada, with a close focus on the case of a physician from Colombia and his family, this volume illustrates how the cultural and social capital of refugees is marginalized and, in some cases, erased by the undervaluing of their education, training, credentials, and other knowledge. The findings presented in the book underscore the importance of addressing the challenge of integrating highly trained professionals into the professions for which they are credentialed.

Poor Women in Rich Countries

Author : Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199718202
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Poor Women in Rich Countries written by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In a rich analysis of labor market and social welfare sectors, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and a team of outstanding international contributors conclude that both living-wage employment and government provision of adequate benefits and services are necessary if lone women are to achieve a socially acceptable living standard. Taken together, the chapters extend a feminist critique of welfare state theories and chart nations' disparate progress against poverty -- probing, for instance, how Sweden emerged a leader in the prevention of women's poverty while the United States continues to lag. By identifying the social and economic policies that enable women to live independently, Poor Women in Rich Countries provides nothing less than a blueprint for abolishing women's poverty.

Global Crossroads in Social Welfare

Author : Elieth P. Eyébiyi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3941482777
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Global Crossroads in Social Welfare written by Elieth P. Eyébiyi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together a cross-section of papers presented at the 33rd International Council of Social Welfare (ICSW) conference in Tours, France, in July 2008. ...The contributions raise important topics offering great insight into the multiplicity of ways that nations and communities are responding to the challenges of globalisation as well as internal demands for greater social justice and equality as well as mechanisms for civil society."--Back cover.

Out of Place

Author : Luann Good Gingrich
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510985
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Out of Place written by Luann Good Gingrich and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flow of migrants from south to north and east to west carries with it growing concerns about the economic integration, political incorporation, and social inclusion of newcomers and their children. But what happens when a group of people deliberately excludes themselves from mainstream society? How can social policies, human services, and communities best understand and respond to them? In Out of Place, Luann Good Gingrich explores social inclusion and exclusion in relation to the approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites who have migrated from traditionally self-sufficient and agrarian colonies in Latin America to rural areas of Canada. By examining the free-market principles that organize the human services industry the author exposes the inherent conflict that arises when this “market logic” is imposed on a group that does not embrace these ideals. The author’s innovative approach to social policy and human services which emphasizes the relationship between dominant and subordinate cultures, encourages us to find new ways to authentically engage with difference and bridge the gaps that divide us.

Transnational Agency and Migration

Author : Stefan Köngeter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317397800
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Agency and Migration written by Stefan Köngeter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants, activists and professionals connect social worlds across national boundaries through a variety of social practices. The contributions from various disciplines - anthropology, economics, political and social sciences, educational studies and social work - illuminate the meaning of agency in situations where the capabilities of transnational actors are constrained by nation-states, their borders and social institutions. Based on a relational understanding of transnational agency which builds upon new insights and developments within transnational studies and network theory, this compilation of chapters presents transnational processes and developments in and across various regions of the globe - in East Asia, the Americas, the EU, Southeast Asia, Africa and Australia, in the borderlands of Mexico and the US, in the transatlantic space of the 19th-century fin de siècle world - in order to demonstrate the importance of gaining, assisting and expanding agency in transnational contexts.

Canadian Social Policy

Author : Anne Westhues
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205043
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Social Policy written by Anne Westhues and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-09-20 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this new edition is the same as that of previous editions: to help students understand social policy from a Canadian perspective, and to stir them to discussion and debate. Part One provides a general overview of social policy and Part Two discusses the policy-making processes, from the international factors that influence them to the ways in which a social worker can become part of this process. Part Three focuses on current social policy issues, and Part Four offers a look to the future. Each chapter of this best-selling book has been thoroughly updated for this new edition with regard to current policy, debated issues, and resources cited. Three new chapters have been added, including an overview of adult mental health policy and a critical look at risk assessment in child welfare. There is also a discussion of current challenges to the Charter of Rights and Canadians increasing use of the justice system to shape social policy. As a result, the reader gains an informed perspective of policy development and evaluation. Although designed primarily for use by social workers, the book will benefit anyone who is involved in the policy-making process.

Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas

Author : L. Macdonald
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230232825
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas written by L. Macdonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate policy changes and to grapple with the on-going transformations of neoliberalism in both North America and various Latin American states.

Living Wage Movements

Author : Deborah M. Figart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134362420
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Living Wage Movements written by Deborah M. Figart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job insecurity. Upon reviewing the empirical evidence, the book's contributors make strong cases both for and against living wage activism. The effective blend of historical, contemporary, and global perspectives provides opportunities for teachers, scholars, and activists to evaluate how we can address low pay at the organizational and macroeconomic levels.

Income Security in Canada

Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
ISBN 13 : 9780886451493
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Income Security in Canada written by Institute for Research on Public Policy and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial constraints as well as concern over the effectiveness of certain policies are prompting a re-examination of government programs aimed at assisting the disadvantaged in society.

Social Determinants of Health

Author : Dennis Raphael
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551308975
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Social Determinants of Health written by Dennis Raphael and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current environment of deepening class and income inequality, it is essential to understand the socio-economic conditions that shape the health of individuals and communities. Now in its third edition, Dennis Raphael’s Social Determinants of Health offers a comprehensive discussion of the primary factors that influence the health of Canada’s population. This seminal text on the social determinants of health contains contributions from top academics and high-profile experts from across the country. Taking a public policy approach, the authors in this edited collection critically analyze the structural inequalities embedded in our society and the socio-economic factors that affect health, including income, education, employment, housing, food security, gender, and race. The thorough updates to this edition include a greater focus on the political mechanisms that explain the distribution of the social determinants of health and additional material on public policy, early childhood education in Canada, and the determinants of Indigenous peoples’ health. Rich in pedagogical tools including critical thinking questions and lists of recommended readings and online resources, this book will actively engage students and researchers alike.

Our Times

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Daily Struggles

Author : Siu-ming Kwok
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303396
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Daily Struggles written by Siu-ming Kwok and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daily Struggles offers a unique, critical perspective on poverty by highlighting gender and race analyses simultaneously. Unlike previously published Canadian books in this field, this book connects human rights, political economy perspectives, and citizenship issues to other areas of social exclusion." "This new book is ideally suited for a wide variety of sociology, social work, and political science courses in the areas of social inequality and stratification, poverty, social policy and welfare, gender, race and ethnicity, and anti-racism."--BOOK JACKET.

Women's Employment in BC: Effects of Government Downsizing and Employment Policy Changes 2001-2004

Author : Sylvia Anne Fuller
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 0886273994
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Women's Employment in BC: Effects of Government Downsizing and Employment Policy Changes 2001-2004 written by Sylvia Anne Fuller and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any errors and the opinions contained in the paper are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CCPA. [...] Overall, the availability and generosity of social supports and entitlements has eroded as the government weakens or eliminates key public services and increasingly emphasizes the necessity of individual self-reliance and participation in a de/re-regulated labour market as the only legitimate route to economic security. [...] In so doing, we consider not only policy changes that directly affect employment regulations and the availability of particular kinds of employment for women (such as the loss of public-sector jobs and changes to the provincial Employment Standards Act), but also changes that alter the conditions under which women access employment (such as changes in post-secondary education and childcare policie [...] Higher levels of education are also associated with both higher levels of employment, and a smaller gap in men and women's labour force participation rates, as documented in Table 3. Women in BC with fewer than eight years of education have only 57 per cent of the employment level of men with the same education, while those with an undergraduate degree are employed at 93 per cent of the level of t [...] As a result, the of hospital and long-term care beds, and funding cuts have eliminated number of low income housekeeping services from the home care services received by the children in the regulated disabled and frail elderly in some areas of the province.

International Social Security Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Rising Up

Author : Bryan Evans
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864397
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Rising Up written by Bryan Evans and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response. Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. In the 1970s, the balance of political and economic power began to shift in favour of business, as trade unions weakened and governments failed to check corporate power. By the 2000s, austerity measures had dismantled social spending, facilitating the growth of low-waged employment. Contributors to this astute collection of essays examine union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Offering stimulating debate about living wages and social inequality, Rising Up promotes alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market.