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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14190
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dc.contributor.advisorStorey, Robert H.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMulvale, James P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T17:06:36Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T17:06:36Z-
dc.date.created2014-05-13en_US
dc.date.issued1998-12en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/9014en_US
dc.identifier.other10073en_US
dc.identifier.other5573006en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/14190-
dc.description.abstract<p>This study investigates the responses of the labour movement, social policy advocacy organizations, and feminists to the downsizing and restructuring of the welfare state in Canada. Of interest in this research is whether these constituencies are in the initial stages of 're-conceptualizing' social welfare, given that the increasing degree of economic globalization and the rightward shift in political thinking in recent years have created a need for 'paradigm shift' in approaches to social policy among equality-seeking social movements.</p> <p>It is discovered that these three social movements (labour, social policy advocates, and feminists) are at varying stages in imagining and working to achieve a progressive alternative to the postwar welfare state. Some elements of the labour movement have clearly identified the economic and political roots of growing social inequality. Some elements of the social policy advocacy community are promoting comprehensive alternative economic and social policies to the ones currently dominating political discourse. The women's movement, as represented by the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, appears to be the furthest ahead in developing a theoretically grounded critique of neoconservative I neo-liberal social welfare restructuring, and in posing progressive alternatives to it.</p> <p>Theoretical issues which arise in regard to rethinking social welfare and reformulating social policy are discussed. There is also reference made to the strategic challenges which confront social movements within Canada and internationally, in their efforts to use social policy as a means of achieving greater social equality and an environmentally sustainable set of economic and political arrangements.</p>en_US
dc.subjectKeynesian Welfareen_US
dc.subjectProgressive movementsen_US
dc.subjectsocial policyen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.titleBeyond the Keynesian Welfare State: Progressive Movements and New Directions in Social Policy in Canadaen_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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