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

Published Toronto : Women's Press, 1992

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Description xii, 401 pages ; 22 cm 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Family policy -- Canada -- History. Patriarchy. Social legislation -- Canada -- History. Social structure -- Canada. Women -- Canada -- Social conditions. LC no. 92223334 ISBN 0889611599

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