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Political Science Social Security

From Rights to Needs

A History of Family Allowances in Canada, 1929-92

by (author) Raymond B. Blake

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
May 2009
Category
Social Security, General, General, Post-Confederation (1867-), Social Policy

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774858687
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $34.95

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774815734
    Publish Date
    Jul 2009
    List Price
    $34.95

  • 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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