Combating Poverty - Quebec''s Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State

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.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Quebec’s Exceptionalism in Context
Chapter 1: Social and Employment Policies at the Provincial Level: A Survey of Four Provinces
Chapter 2: Poverty: Measures and Trends
Chapter 3: Poverty and the Changing Family
Chapter 4: Chronic Poverty
Chapter 5: Activation and Poverty
Chapter 6: How Exceptional Is Quebec
Conclusion: Towards the Provincialization of the Social Union?¿
Works Cited
Notes

About the author

Axel van den Berg is a professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Axel van den Berg, Sam Faustmann, Charles Plante, Christine Proulx, Hicham Raiq, Axel Van den Berg, Axel Plante Van Den Berg
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2017
• EAN: 9781487501563
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0156-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic; Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore