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In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and restructuring. Through a detailed historical account of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program from 1945 to 1997, Ann Porter demonstrates how gender was central both to the construction of the post-war welfare state, as well as to its subsequent crisis and restructuring. Drawing on a wide range of sources (including archival material, UI administrative tribunal decisions, and documents from the government, labour and women''s groups) she examines the implications of restructuring for women''s equality, as well as how women''s groups, labour and the state interacted in efforts to shape the policy agenda.

Porter argues that, while the post-war welfare state model was based on a family with a single male breadwinner, the new model is one

Gendered States

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 27 September 2003
      ISBN-13 9780802035233
      978-0802035233
      ISBN-10 080203523X
      Also in:
      Gender studies, gender groups Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and restructuring. Through a detailed historical account of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program from 1945 to 1997, Ann Porter demonstrates how gender was central both to the construction of the post-war welfare state, as well as to its subsequent crisis and restructuring. Drawing on a wide range of sources (including archival material, UI administrative tribunal decisions, and documents from the government, labour and women''s groups) she examines the implications of restructuring for women''s equality, as well as how women''s groups, labour and the state interacted in efforts to shape the policy agenda.

      Porter argues that, while the post-war welfare state model was based on a family with a single male breadwinner, the new model is one

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