Combating Poverty

Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State

AvAxel van den Berg,Charles Plante

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Combating 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-28
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781487513504
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

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Axel van den Berg is a professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University.Charles Plante is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at McGill University.Hicham Raïq is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at McGill University.Christine Proulx is a research professional at the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université (FQPPU).Samuel Faustmann is a data administrator at Real Food for Real Kids in Toronto.

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"This book is worth reading to understand different poverty levels in Canada, and how Quebec has achieved the lowest level of poverty. It remains open for educators, students, researchers, and policymakers to decide the extent to which Quebec’s policies may be applied to other regions."- Jaewon Lee, Michigan State University (Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol 46 no 1)

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List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Quebec’s Exceptionalism in ContextChapter 1: Social and Employment Policies at the Provincial Level: A Survey of Four ProvincesChapter 2: Poverty: Measures and TrendsChapter 3: Poverty and the Changing FamilyChapter 4: Chronic PovertyChapter 5: Activation and PovertyChapter 6: How Exceptional Is QuebecConclusion: Towards the Provincialization of the Social Union?　Works CitedNotes