From Rights to Needs

A History of Family Allowances in Canada, 1929-92

Raymond B Blake author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:6th Dec '08

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An eloquent exposition of how Canada’s welfare state and social policy has been transformed over the past half century.

This comprehensive exploration of the origins and development of family allowances offers inventive insights into Canada’s welfare state and social policy over the past half century.

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.

ISBN: 9780774815727

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 660g

392 pages