Political Science Social Security
From Rights to Needs
A History of Family Allowances in Canada, 1929-92
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2009
- Category
- Social Security, General, General, Post-Confederation (1867-), Social Policy
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774858687
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774815734
- Publish Date
- Jul 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774815727
- Publish Date
- Dec 2008
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Raymond B. Blake is Professor of History at the University of Regina and formerly Director of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy. His books include Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada, co-edited with Andrew Nurse (2003), and Canadians at Last: Canada Integrates Newfoundland as a Province (1994 and 2004).
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