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Inequality in Canada : the history and politics of an idea /

"Economic inequality is one of the great issues of our era. But what is inequality? Eric Sager argues that inequality is more than the distribution of income and wealth. Inequality is the idea that there are wide gaps between rich and poor, that the gaps are both an economic problem and a socia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sager, Eric W., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 81.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • North Atlantic Thinkers on the Problem of Inequality (1770s-1920s)
  • First Sightings of Inequality in the Canadian Colonies (1790s-1830s)
  • Emerging Protestant Critiques of Wealth (1830s-1880s)
  • Labour Voices, Worker Intellectuals, and the Politics of Immanence (1870-1920)
  • Spiritual Engineering from Rural Romantics to Social Gospellers (1900s-1930)
  • The Silence and Scope of English-Canadian Political Economy (1880-1920)
  • The Force and Frailty of Quebec's Social Catholicism (1930s-1950s)
  • Idealism, Equality, and the End of Inequality (1920-1945)
  • Fractured Echoes of Inequality in the Welfare Era (1940s-1960s).