Georges Campeau

From Ui to Ei

Waging War on the Welfare State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From UI to EI examines the history of Canada's unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780774811231
• ISBN-10: 0774811234
• Artikelnr.: 21820053

Autorenporträt

Georges Campeau spent many years defending the rights of the jobless as an activist lawyer. He is currently a professor of social law in the Faculté de science politique et de droit at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Richard Howard has been translating books from the French, chiefly in the social sciences, for over three decades.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Why UI?
2 The British Act of 1911
3 Developing a Canadian System 4) The UI Act of 1940
5 UI Expansion, 1940-75
6 Vision under Siege, 1975-88
7 Rights Enshrined in Case Law, 1940-90
8 The System Hijacked, 1989-96
9 Onward to EI
10 Case Law in the Neoliberal Riptide of the 1990s
Conclusion
Epilogue: Bill C-2, February 2001
Notes
Index