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Author: David Ross
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780888102102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1975, this pamphlet looks at facts and figures regarding poverty in Canada. It offers an unparalleled overview of social conditions in Canada in the mid-1970s.
Author: David P. Ross
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David P. Ross
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe " Fact Book on Poverty " clearly indicates certain groups in our society are especially vulnerable to poverty. They include the old, the long-term unemployed, and female heads of households.
Author: David P. Ross
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopics discussed in this document include: working definitions of poverty; poverty and income distribution; the changing face of poverty; employment, earnings, and the working poor; the near-poor; the distribution of income in Canada; the distribution of the benefits of Canada's income security system; and poverty and income distribution in Canada and abroad.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dennis Raphael
Publisher: Canadian Scholars
Published: 2020-08-28
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 177338192X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its third edition, this comprehensive text provides an in-depth examination of poverty and its impact on the health and quality of life of Canadians. Considering a broad range of topics, Dennis Raphael covers the central issues of defining and measuring poverty; situational and societal causes of poverty; health and social implications for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing poverty’s incidence through public policy action. Poverty in Canada will foster greater insight into the repercussions of poverty throughout society, encouraging readers to reflect on provocative questions at the end of each chapter. Well updated to reflect current statistics and recent public policy changes, this new edition explores why specific groups of Canadians are over-represented amongst those living in poverty and provides a more developed analysis of the barriers to reducing poverty, including economic globalization and the increased power and influence of the corporate sector under neo liberalism. Emphasizing the lived experiences of poverty, this interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource to those studying or working in health studies, social work, sociology, and equity studies.
Author: Dan Zuberi
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1501711253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi's conclusions are based on survey data, eighteen months of participant observation fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with seventy-seven hotel employees working in parallel jobs on both sides of the border. Two hotel chains, each with one union and one non-union hotel in Seattle and Vancouver, provide a vivid crossnational comparison because they are similar in so many regards, the one major exception being government policy.Zuberi demonstrates how labor, health, social welfare, and public investment policy affect these hotel workers and their families. His book challenges the myth that globalization necessarily means hospitality jobs must be insecure and pay poverty wages and makes clear the critical role played by government policy in the reduction of poverty and creation of economic equality. Zuberi shows exactly where and how the social policies that distinguish the Canadian welfare state from the U.S. version make a difference in protecting Canadian workers from the hardships that burden low-wage workers in the United States. Differences That Matter, which is filled with first-person accounts, ends with policy recommendations and a call for grassroots community organizing.
Author: Axel van den Berg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1487501560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous 'liberal market' regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable divergence in policy mixes and outcomes between provinces. This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canada's four largest provinces - Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta - showing the full extent to which Canada's major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North American liberal, market-oriented regime. Combating Poverty provides a unique and timely reflection on the political implications and sustainability of Canada's fragmented welfare state.
Author: Wendy McKeen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780802085443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her analysis, McKeen underscores this persistent familialism that has been written and rewritten into Canadian social policy thereby denying women's autonomy as independent claims-makers on the state.
Author: Donald Caskie
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780888102935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fact Book on Poverty clearly indicates certain groups in our society are especially vulnerable to poverty. They include the old, the long-term unemployed, and female heads of households.
