Gendered states : women, unemployment insurance, and the political economy of the welfare state in Canada, 1945-1997 / Ann Porter.
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.