Download or read book Working towards Equity written by Dustin Galer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.

Download or read book The Pursuit of Division written by Martin Loney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of equity policies and identity politics in Canada is at the forefront of public and media discussion, and Martin Loney adds fuel to the fire. In The Pursuit of Division he provides a provocative critique of recent government policies with respect to race, gender, and preferential hiring, exposing the suspect methods of so-called progressive thinkers in their pursuit of the politics of difference.

Download or read book Race and Racism written by Leo Driedger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Racism brings together critical contributions from the academic and government sectors that analyse the nature and extent of racism in Canada. The broad spectrum of social scientific approaches represented here - sociology, cultural anthropology, demography, and psychology - and an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods make this study a particularly rich source for scholars and policy makers alike. Discussion unfolds along four main themes: concepts and theories relating to race (including some treatment of measurement questions), economic and social factors pertaining to race, racism, and discrimination (as represented in opinion and popular perception, measured in various ways), and the dimensions of minority coping in major urban areas. Race and Racism fills in many wavering lines on our cultural landscape and provides an important perspective on social policy for the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Cross Cultural Communication Concepts Cases and Challenges written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aboriginal People and Other Canadians written by D. N. Collins and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses a wide variety of issues in Native studies including social exclusion, marginalization and identity; justice, equality and gender; self-help and empowerment in Aboriginal communities and in the cities; and, methodological and historiographical representations of social relationships.

Download or read book Divergent Inequalities Theory Empirical Results and Prescriptions written by Michael C. Wolfson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tries to explain why statistical indicators about the "disappearing middle class" are potentially misleading.

Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Canada 2003 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 edition of OECD's periodic survey of Canada's economy focuses on key challenges including raising living standards, international migration, and managing fiscal pressures in the medium and long-term.

Download or read book Why Has Inequality in Weekly Earnings Increased in Canada written by René Morissette and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality in weekly earnings increased in Canada in the 1980s, in conjunction with a drop in real hourly wages of young workers, a fall in the percentage of employees working 35-40 hours per week in their main job, a rise in the fraction of employees working 50 hours per week or more, and a growing tendency for highly paid workers to work long workweeks. The paper examines the role of weekly hours of work and the correlation between hourly wage rates and weekly hours in explaining the rise of inequality in weekly earnings in Canada over the last decade. It also documents changes in the distribution of hourly wages, the growth in the dispersion of weekly hours of work, and the increase in the correlation between hourly wages and weekly hours. The paper concludes with a review of the possible factors behind the rise in weekly earnings inequality in Canada.

Download or read book A Look at Employment Equity Groups Among Recent Postsecondary Graduates written by Ted Wannell and published by Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Class of 86 Revisited written by Lynn Barr-Telford and published by Human Resources Development Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, also funded by Human Resources Development Canada, contains results of the Follow-up of 1986 Graduates Survey (FOG). The FOG survey took place in March 1991 and was the second time that 1986 graduates were interviewed. These graduates were first contacted in May 1988 for the National Graduates Survey (NGS). Over 35,000 respondents to the NGS who were still living in Canada were re-interviewed by telephone for the FOG. The results presented in this report represent the experiences of 1986 graduates of trade/vocational, career/technical and university programs living in Canada in both May 1988 and March 1991. The report looks at 1986 graduates' labour market activities, their earnings, the relationship between their education and labour market activities, and their further educational qualifications five years after graduation. The results of the FOG survey are also compared to those obtained in the NGS which was conducted two years after graduation.

Download or read book Working More Working Less written by Marie Drolet and published by Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch. This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calculations based on the Survey on Work Reduction of 1985 suggest that if Canadian workers were to voluntarily reduce their workweek, the number of workhours available for redistribution would unlikely be sufficient to both eliminate underemployment and reduce unemployment. The potential for worktime redistribution, as measured by the propensity to desire fewer hours, appears to be greatest (lowest) in age-education groups with relatively low (high) unemployment rates. This implies that the resulting decrease in unemployment and underemployment could be more pronounced in groups where workers are already relatively successful.

Download or read book Boundaries of Clan and Color written by William Darity and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-national, comparative investigation of patterns and dynamics of inter-group economic inequality. Experts discuss groups from Japan to India, attempts to remedy inter-group inequality and race and labor market outcomes in Brazil.

Download or read book Women in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Giving Voice written by Hans Braun and published by Idstein [Germany] : Schulz-Kirchner. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book House of Commons Debates Official Report written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Portrait of Persons with Disabilities written by Statistics Canada. Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division and published by Statistics Canada Housing Family. This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: