Private lives, public policy : 100 years of state intervention in the family / by Jane Ursel.

By: Ursel, Jane, 1948- [author]
Language: English Publisher: Toronto : Women's Press, 1992Description: xii, 401 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0889611599 :; 9780889611597Subject(s): Family policy -- Canada -- History | Social legislation -- Canada -- History | Social structure -- Canada | Patriarchy | Women -- Canada -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 306.850971 LOC classification: HQ560 | .U77 1992
Contents:
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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