Ursel, Jane, 1948-

Private lives, public policy : 100 years of state intervention in the family / by Jane Ursel. - xii, 401 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references

The Theory --
The Method --
Reading Options --
Towards a Theory of Reproduction --
Dual-Systems Model and the Problem of Evidence --
Reconceptualizing Reproduction --
Communal Patriarchy --
Reproduction and Class Formation --
Familial Patriarchy --
The Wage-Labour System and Familial Patriarchy --
Social Patriarchy --
Social Patriarchy, Corollary or Alternative? --
The Political Economy of Reproduction --
Familial and Social Patriarchy: The Essential Components of Modern Reproductive Relations --
From Theory to History --
Historical Background: The Impact of Industrialization in Canada --
Wage Labour and Reproduction --
Social Reform Movement --
Naming the Problem --
Business, Labour and Patriarchy --
Women and Patriarchy --
Period I: 1884-1913 --
The Reformation of the Wage-Labour System --
Commissions and Inquiries --
Legislation --
Labour Bureaucracies --
Transformation of Patriarchy --
Family Law --
Welfare --
Commissions and Inquiries --
Welfare Legislation --
Welfare Bureaucracy --
Welfare Expenditures --
Summary --
Period II: 1914-1939 --
Capital, Labour and the Economy --
Labour Commissions and Inquiries --
Labour Legislation --
Constructing Social Patriarchy --
Family Law --
Welfare Commissions and Inquiries --
Welfare Legislation --
Reorganization of the Welfare System --
Welfare Bureaucracy --
War, Depression and the Growth of Federal Welfare --
Welfare Expenditures --
Summary --
Period III: 1940-1968 --
Patriarchy and Patriotism: The War and Reconstruction Years 1940-1947 --
The War Economy --
Managing Labour --
Labour Inquiry Board --
The Family Allowance Act: A Wage Subsidy Program --
The Labour Relations Act: Privy Council Order 1003 --
Women in the War Economy --
The New Welfare Ideology --
Commissions and Inquiries --
Welfare Legislation --
Welfare Expenditures --
Summary --
Post-War Canada 1948-1968 --
Restructuring Reproduction --
Restructuring the Canadian Labour Market --
Labour Commissions and Inquiries --
Labour Legislation --
The Making of a National Welfare State. Provincial Welfare Legislation --
Negotiating the Welfare State --
Welfare Expenditures --
Summary --
The State and the Future of Patriarchy --
Strategies for Change --
Appendix 1: A Note on the Research Process --
Appendix 2: Tables.

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Family policy--History.--Canada
Social legislation--History.--Canada
Social structure--Canada.
Patriarchy.
Women--Social conditions.--Canada

HQ560 / .U77 1992

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