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Combating Poverty
Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
Axel van den Berg (Author), Charles Plante (Author), Hicham Raiq (Author), Christine Proulx (Author), Sam Faustmann (Author)
9781487501563
Hardback, published 8 August 2017
232 pages, 35 Figures
23.5 x 15.9 x 96.5 cm, 0.5 kg
"This book is worth reading to understand different poverty levels in Canada, and how Quebec has achieved the lowest level of poverty. It remains open for educators, students, researchers, and policymakers to decide the extent to which Quebec’s policies may be applied to other regions."
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. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous ‘liberal market’ regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable divergence in policy mixes and outcomes between provinces. This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canada’s four largest provinces – Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta – showing the full extent to which Canada’s major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North American liberal, market-oriented regime. Combating Poverty provides a unique and timely reflection on the political implications and sustainability of Canada’s fragmented welfare state.
List of Figures 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
List of Tables
Acknowledgements