From Rights to Needs : A History of Family Allowances in Canada, 1929-92
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780774815727
- ISBN-10: 0774815728
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Publish Date: December 2008
- Page Count: 380
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