Social Policy and Social Justice

The Ndp Government in Saskatchewan During the Blakeney Years
Herausgeber: Harding, Jim

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Produktbeschreibung

Social Policy and Social Justice looks concretely at the successes and failures of a social democratic government in Canada (1971-1982) in achieving social justice through its approaches to social policy. Social policy is analyzed widely, including day care, workers' control, prescription drugs, social assistance, income distribution, legal aid and policing. Additional chapters review the NDP's re-organization of bureaucracy and allocation of expenditures. Also included are an historical synopsis of the legislation pursued in the period and an analysis of the broader political, economic and sociological contexts in Canada. Social Policy and Social Justice is the first in-depth analysis of social policy at a provincial level. It is the product of the multidisciplinary scholarship of the authors, all of whom have extensive experience in policy-making, policy advocacy or policy research. This book will be an invaluable resource for comparative purposes, particularly since there are now three NDP governments across Canada, and the NDP is undergoing re-evaluation in the wake of the 1993 federal election. It will be of particular interest to those in government, university, community-based or political organizations wanting to re-examine mainstream assumptions about social democracy, social policy and social justice in Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9780889202405
• ISBN-10: 0889202400
• Artikelnr.: 44139551

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Social Policy and Social Justice: The NDP Government in Saskatchewan during
the Blakeney Years, edited by Jim Harding
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I - Establishing a Context
1. Process and Product Jim Harding
Part II - Critical Case Studies
2. The Continuing Struggle for Universal Day Care Judith Martin
3. The Work Environment Board and the Limits of Social Democracy Robert
Sass
4. The Welfare State as a Therapeutic State Jim Harding
5. The Shift to Joint Ventures in Social Services Graham Riches and
George Maslany
6. Income Inequality 1971-1982 Gordon Ternowetsky
7. Legal Aid in Saskatchewan Jennie Abell
8. Public and Private Policing Ron Schriml
9. Economic Growth and Social Spending in Saskatchewan 1971-1982 Graham
Riches and Jim Harding
10. The Two Faces of Public Ownership Bill Harding
Part III - Critical Policy Analysis
11. Social Democracy and Underdevelopment Ken Collier
12. The Burdens and Benefits of Growth Jim Harding
13. Social Policy and Social Justice Jim Harding and Bonnie Jeffery
Part IV - Policy Praxis
14. Putting Social Policy Analysis in Its Political Context Jim Harding
15. Historical Synopsis Mary Gianoli
Index
Contributors' Bios
Jim Harding: Jim was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1941. He was
active in the CCF-NDP in the 1950-60s, acting as president of the
Saskatchewan CCF Youth while in high school, and running as a federal NDP
candidate in 1964 while at university in Saskatoon. He has also served on
the Federal Council of the NDP. Jim was active in the extra-parliamentary
"new left" in the 1960s and remains active in environmental and community
politics; he was recently elected to the Regina City Council. He did his
M.A. work in social psychology and his Ph.D. in the sociology of knowledge.
He has taught at several universities across Canada, in psychology,
sociology, environmental studies, social work, and human justice. He has
published in various books and journals on such issues as poverty,
education, social change, the peace movement, environmental health, alcohol
and drugs, women and pharmaceutics, uranium mining, and aboriginal justice.
He is past director of research for the Saskatchewan Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Commission and of Prairie Justice Research and past director of the School
of Human Justice, University of Regina. He is currently a professor at the
University of Regina. Jim is married to Jan Stoody and has three sons,
Reece, Joel, and Dagan.
Judith Martin: Judith was born in rural Saskatchewan in 1947. She holds an
M.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Community Development. From 1970 to 1979
she taught at Brandon University, the University of Alberta, and the
University of Saskatchewan, and worked as policy consultant in equal
opportunity projects with the Government of Manitoba. From 1979 to 1986 she
was director of the Community Development Program, Saskatoon Regional
Community College. She is founding chairperson of Action Child Care,
Saskatoon, founding chairperson of the Canadian Day Care Advocacy
Association, and was a member of the Saskatchewan Government Day Care
Advisory Council between 1981 and 1983. From 1986 to 1992 she was executive
director of the Saskatoon Community Clinic. In 1992 she was appointed
regional director of Social Services for Saskatoon.
Bob Sass: Bob's academic background is in industrial relations. He sat on a
provincial NDP Labour Policy Committee which held hearings throughout the
province after the NDP's defeat in 1982. He is a past executive director of
the Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety Branch and past associate
deputy minister of Labour, Government of Saskatchewan. He continues to do
extensive consulting and workshops on occupational health and safety with
trade union locals. He is currently a professor in the College of Commerce,
University of Saskatchewan.
Graham Riches: Graham is currently a professor of social work at the new
University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. Before that he
was head of the Department of Social Work and Community Welfare at James
Cook University, North Queensland, Australia. Formerly he was professor of
social work at the University of Regina and director of its Social
Administration Research Unit. He is author of Food Banks and the Welfare
Crisis (Ottawa: CCSD, 1986) and with Gordon Ternowetsky co-edited
Unemployment and Welfare: Social Policy and the Work of Social Work
(Toronto: Garamond Press, 1990). He has written many articles on hunger,
poverty, and unemployment and was cofounder and joint editor of the
Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue canadienne de politique sociale.
George Maslany: George is currently a professor of social work and
associate dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, at the University
of Regina. He has taught a broad range of courses from research methods to
practices, as well as engaging in a variety of research activities related
to this field. He had previously served as the founding director of the
Social Administration Research Unit, University of Regina. His own academic
studies were undertaken at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus,
and at the University of Calgary, where he obtained his Ph.D. in
educational psychology. Prior to that time he was employed by the
Saskatchewan Department of Social Services in the Corrections and child
care field.
Gordon Temowetsky: Gordon was born in Winkler, Manitoba, and completed an
Honours B.A. at the University of Winnipeg in 1970. He took his M.A. in
Sociology at the University of Calgary and finished his Ph.D. in 1979 at La
Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Gordon is past chair of Social Work
at the new University of Northern British Columbia. Until 1994 he was a
professor in the Social Administration Research Unit, Faculty of Social
Work, at the University of Regina. He assumed this position in 1983 after
teaching for twelve years in the Department of Sociology at La Trobe
University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of
poverty, inequality, social policy, the welfare state, and quantitative
research methods. Gordon has published several articles on income
inequality in Australia, Canada, and Saskatchewan. He is the founding
editor of Australian- Canadian Studies: A Journal for the Humanities and
Social Sciences and a former editor of Canadian Review of Social
Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale. He is married to Carroll
Temowetsky and has two children, Alexander and Joey.
Jennie Abell: Jennie Abell was trained as a lawyer at the University of
Saskatchewan and completed an LL.M. at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has
done extensive work in community development and legal advocacy. She worked
as a legal aid lawyer in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, from 1978-82 and has
worked as an assistant professor in the School of Human Justice, University
of Regina. She is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Law,
Common Law Section, University of Ottawa, where she teaches and does
research in the areas of law, poverty, social change, feminist theory, and
criminal law and procedure.
Ron Schriml: Ron was born and raised in Saskatchewan. He holds an M.A. in
social work from Carleton University. He has been involved in a number of
community-related activities such as the Prince Albert Council on Alcohol
and Drug Abuse, of which he is past president. He has acted as president of
the Saskatchewan Criminology and Corrections Association, served many years
on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association and
is also past director of the Prince Albert Correctional Centre. Professor
Schriml is a past director of the University of Regina's Community
Education Centre, Prince Albert, and is currently director of Prairie
Justice Research, and an associate professor in the School of Human
Justice, University of Regina.
Bill Harding: Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Bill Harding was engaged in
many pioneering activities in agriculture, adult education, social and
economic affairs, and community development during his more than eighty
years. After acting as secretary of the Saskatchewan Royal Commission on
Rural Life and the Centre for Community Studies, Bill spent thirteen years
as a director with the United Nations Development Programme, where he
became one of a small handful of Canadians selected to be a resident
representative, responsible for the entire United Nations programme in his
assigned country. After his retirement in 1975, Bill taught, wrote, and
lectured on various crucial issues and was an outspoken opponent of uranium
mining, nuclear energy, and all of the ills of a centralized corporate
society. He was an active proponent of alternative energy and a revitalized
participatory democracy. Bill Harding died in 1993 before this book was
published.
Ken Collier: Ken is a professor of the Social Work at the University of
Regina. He has lived in northern Saskatchewan where he has worked as a
health planner for the Department of Northern Saskatchewan, and as director
of the University of Regina's Community Education Centre at La Ronge. His
studies have focused on rural social and economic development and he has
recently completed doctoral studies in these areas at the University of
Swansea in Wales. His book, Social Work with Rural Peoples: Theory and
Practice (Vancouver: New Star, 2d ed., 1994) is used in classes on rural
social welfare across North America.
Bonnie Jeffery: Bonnie was born in Eston, Saskatchewan in 1953. She holds
an M.A. in social work from the University of Toronto. From 1975 to 1976
she worked as a rural social worker out of the Weyburn Psychiatric Centre
and since 1979 has been employed by the Faculty of Social Work, University
of Regina. She is past director of the Faculty's Community Education Centre
in both Saskatoon and Prince Albert, the director of the Social
Administration Research Unit, and assistant dean of Social Work at the
University of Regina. She has acted as a consultant to many local social
service agencies in the area of program development and research. Currently
an associate professor of Social Work, she in on leave doing doctoral work
in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Mary Gianoli: Mary was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has a B.Ed, and
Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Regina.
During the preparation of this manuscript she worked as the co-ordinator of
Prairie Justice Research, University of Regina. She has also worked in
school libraries and was employed by the Planning and Policy Development
Branch, Saskatchewan Health. In 1991 she worked with Statistics Canada,
managing the field components of the 1991 censuses of population and
agriculture in the northwest Saskatoon and west central Saskatchewan census
areas. Mary is now working in an educational capacity with the Financial
Management Board Secretariat, Government of the Northwest Territories, in
Yellowknife.