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When Poverty Mattered: Then and Now

When Poverty Mattered: Then and Now

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General Political SciencePoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 1773631802
ISBN13: 9781773631806
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute mandated to spark political discussion about a range of social issues, such as poverty, homelessness, anti-war activism, community activism and worker organization. Deemed a radical threat by the Canadian state, Praxis was put under rcmp surveillance. In 1970, Praxis's office was burgled and burned to the ground. No arrests were made, but internal documents and records stolen from Praxis ended up in the hands of the rcmp Security Service. All this occurred as Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government shifted away from social spending and poverty reduction towards the economic regime of austerity and neoliberalism that we have today.

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