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The Social Origins of the Welfare State: Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955

The Social Origins of the Welfare State: Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955

Marshall, Dominique
Danby, Nicola Doone

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Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

General SociologySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0889204527
ISBN13: 9780889204522
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Oct 2 2006
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the connections between political initiatives and Québécois families, in particular the way family allowances and compulsory schooling primarily benefited teenage boys who worked on family farms and girls who stayed home to help with domestic labour. She demonstrates that, while the promises of a minimum of welfare and education for all were by no means completely fulfilled, the laws helped to uncover the existence of deep family poverty. Further, by exposing the problem of unequal access of children of different classes to schooling, these programs paved the way for education and funding reforms of the next generation. Another consequence was that in their equal treatment of both genders, the laws fostered the more egalitarian language of the war, which faded from other sectors of society, possibly laying groundwork for feminist claims of future decades.

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