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Gendered States : Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1997 /
"Porter argues that while the postwar welfare state model was based on a family with a single male breadwinner, the new model is one that assumes multiple family earners and encourages employability for both men and women. The result has been greater formal equality for women, but at the same t...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gender and the political economy of the welfare state : theoretical considerations
- Part 1. Contradictions and transformations in families, markets, and the welfare state, 1940-1971. Gender and the construction of the postwar welfare state ; From exclusion to entitlement : pregnancy, maternity, and the Canadian state ; Women into the labour force, UI review, and expansion
- pt. 2. On the path to neoliberalism : gender, crisis, and restructuring. Social reproduction in a transition period : maternity, rights, and conceptions of equality ; Gender, economic crisis, and welfare state restructuring in the 1970s ; The conservatives in power : a polarized debate and the shift to a market-based approach ; Consolidating neoliberal reforms : globalization, multi-earner families, and the erosion of state support for the unemployed.