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The Limits Of Affluence

The Limits Of Affluence

The Limits Of Affluence
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The Limits Of Affluence Paperback - 1995

by Struthers, James,

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  • Title The Limits Of Affluence
  • Author Struthers, James,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 401
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Downsview, Ontario, Canada
  • Publication date 1995-01-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 260594-n
  • ISBN 9780802075826 / 0802075827
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 6.04 x 1.25 in (22.83 x 15.34 x 3.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Public welfare - Ontario - History, Aide sociale - Ontario - Histoire
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95166286
  • Dewey Decimal Code 361.609
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

With its roots in nineteenth-century poor relief, welfare is Canada's oldest and most controversial social program. No other policy is so closely linked to debates on the causes of poverty, the meaning of work, the difference between entitlement and charity, and the definition of basic human needs. The first history of welfare in Canada's richest province offers a new perspective on our contemporary response to poverty.


Struthers examines the evolution of provincial and local programs for single mothers, the aged, and the unemployed between 1920 and 1970, when the modern welfare state first took shape. He analyses the roles of social workers; women's groups; labour and the left; federal, provincial, and local welfare bureaucrats; and the poor themselves. The Story evolves through depression, war, and unprecedented postwar affluence. A wealth of detail supports this account of all the forces that have shaped welfare policy; bureaucratic imperatives, political professionals, the unemployed, labour unions, federal-provincial relations, provincial-municipal relations, and the spirit of the times.
Based on extensive primary research, this definitive work covers much new ground, providing an indispensable reference on Ontario's social welfare history
(The Ontario Historical Studies Series)

From the rear cover

'James Struthers acknowledges the complexity of the subject and does not oversimplify issues. This often requires a skillful balancing act as bureaucratic imperatives, political pressures, ' the spirit of the times, ' private social agencies, social work professionals, the unemployed, labor unions, federal-provincial and provincial-municipal relations all interact in the shaping of welfare policy. He is scrupulous in giving due weight to all these variables.'-----James M. Pitsula, Professor of History, University of Regina.

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