Download or read book The Report on Unemployment and Relief in Western Canada 1932 written by Catherine Mary Ulmer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is about Charlotte Whitton's advisory role to Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett during the summer and fall of 1932 researching and producing the only official report on unemployment and relief ever commissioned by the Bennett administration during the Great Depression. By 1932, the collapse of Bennett's previous relief policies convinced him to reconsider his approach to relief. At Bennett's behest, Charlotte Whitton, one of Canada's most prominent social workers, undertook a June to August tour of Western Canada, observing how each province experienced and dealt with unemployment and relief. Whitton then prepared a report for Bennett which informed him of her observations and made specific recommendations for how Canada's relief system could be reformed. Her final product, however, was far from an impartial policy document. As this thesis argues, Whitton's report was a biased document which reveals as much about Whitton's personal ideology and professional ambitions as it does the conditions facing the Western provinces; the observations and suggestions contained within it were heavily conditioned by Whitton's pre-existing belief in social and fiscal conservatism. Although Whitton's tour allowed her a first-hand view of the amount of poverty and despair faced by Canada's unemployed, as this thesis argues, her beliefs conditioned her response and nothing she encountered changed her hard-line, traditionalist approach to relief. Yet, while Whitton's report reveals much about its author, as this thesis contends, an analysis of Bennett's reaction to it also sheds light on Bennett's approach to unemployment and relief during this time. His commissioning of the report marks a moment three years before his New Deal legislation when Bennett pondered reforming the relief system. Yet, instead of taking action, Bennett did nothing to change the status quo. While Whitton's conservative report certainly agreed with his personal assessment of relief and unemployment in Canada, her central suggestion, that professional social workers be placed in charge of Canada's relief system at all levels to increase efficiency and curtail abuse, was still too costly for Bennett to implement. His failure to seize on this earlier opportunity to introduce a solution to Canada's unemployment issues challenges the sincerity of his New Deal legislation, and his claims to support reform.
Download or read book Report of the Dominion Commissioner of Unemployment Relief March 1932 Etc written by Canada. Commissioner of unemployment relief and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relief Act 1932 written by Canada. Department of Labour and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unemployment and Relief in Ontario written by Harry Morris Cassidy and published by Dent. This book was released on 1932 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wages of Relief written by Eric Strikwerda and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wages of Relief examines the Depression experiences of three municipal governments-Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg-and the individuals and families who relied on them for unemployment relief through the 1930s.
Download or read book Narrative History with Appendices of Unemployment Relief from 1932 1937 written by British Columbia. Unemployment Relief Branch and published by . This book was released on 1938* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Fault of Their Own written by James Struthers and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Microcosms of Misfortune written by Thomas William Tanner and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Half a Loaf written by Brian Christopher Gallant and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unemployment and Relief in Ontario 1929 1932 A Survey and Report By H M Cassidy Etc written by Ontario Economic Council (ONTARIO). Unemployment Research Committee and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of 1932 Unemployment Relief Projects Under the Administration of the Conservation Department January 27 1933 written by Wisconsin. State Conservation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective written by Barry J. Eichengreen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988-04-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High unemployment has been one of the most disturbing features of the economy of the 1980s. For a precedent, one must look to the interwar period and in particular to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It follows that recent years have been marked by a resurgence of interest amongst academics in interwar unemployment. The debate has been contentious. There is nothing like the analysis of a period which recorded rates of un employment approaching 25 per cent to highlight the differences between competing schools of thought on the operation of labour markets. Along with historians, economists whose objective is to better understand the causes, character and consequences of contemporary unemployment and sociologists seeking to understand contemporary society's perceptions and responses to joblessness have devoted increasing attention to this his torical episode. Like many issues in economic history, this one can be approached in a variety of ways using different theoretical approaches, tools of analysis and levels of disaggregation. Much of the recent literature on the func tioning of labour markets in the Depression has been macroeconomic in nature and has been limited to individual countries. Debates from the period itself have been revived and new questions stimulated by modem research have been opened. Many such studies have been narrowly fo cused and have failed to take into account the array of historical evidence collected and anal~sed by contemporaries or reconstructed and re- inter preted by historians.
Download or read book The Depression in Canada written by Michiel Horn and published by Copp Clark Professional. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Canadian Readings. A series of essays dealing with a number of manifestations of the Depression era in Canada - Local Council of Women in Vancouver, the Alberta beet sugar industry, northern settlement, relief camps in Saskatchewan, first doctors' strike in Winnipeg, the Hamilton birth control clinic, muncipal government and the Catholic School Commission in Montreal, student life at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Charlotte Whitton, Depression dependency, fiscal and monetary policy.
Download or read book Raising the Workers Flag written by Stephen Endicott and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott brings its passionate efforts to light in memorable detail. Raising the Workers' Flag is based on newly available or previously untapped sources, including documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Service and the Communist Party's archives. Using these impressive finds, Endicott gives an intimate sense of the raging debates of the labour movement of the 1930s. A gripping account of the League's dreams and daring, Raising the Workers' Flag enlivens some of the most dramatic struggles of Canadian labour history.
Download or read book Whence They Came written by Barbara Ann Roberts and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, immigration policy was largely in the hands of a small group of bureaucrats, who strove desperately to fend off "offensive" peoples. Barbara Roberts explores these government officials, showing how they not only kept the doors closed but also managed to find a way to get rid of some of those who managed to break through their carefully guarded barriers. Robert's important book explores a dark history with an honest and objective style. Published in English.
Download or read book The Welfare State in Canada written by Allan Moscovitch and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major reference work of its kind in the social welfare field in Canada, this volume is a selected bibliography of works on Canadian social welfare policy. The entries in Part One treat general aspects of the origins, development, organization, and administration of the welfare state in Canada; included is a section covering basic statistical sources. The entries in Part Two treat particular areas of policy such as unemployment, disabled persons, prisons, child and family welfare, health care, and day care. Also included are an introductory essay reviewing the literature on social welfare policy in Canada, a "User's Guide," several appendices on archival materials, and an extensive chronology of Canadian social welfare legislation both federal and provincial. The volume will increase the accessibility of literature on the welfare state and stimulate increased awareness and further research. It should be of wide interest to students, researchers, librarians, social welfare policy analysts and administrators, and social work practitioners.
Download or read book Working People in Alberta written by Alvin Finkel and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
