{"product_id":"combating-poverty-9781487501563","title":"Combating Poverty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCombating Poverty\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Jaewon Lee, Michigan State University * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol 46 no 1 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409138098519,"sku":"9781487501563","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487501563.jpg?v=1730505578","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/combating-poverty-9781487501563","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}