The Emergence of Social Security in Canada
Third Edition
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
The Emergence of Social Security in Canada
Third Edition
406 pages

Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Emergence of Social Security in Canada: Major Themes
2 The Colonial Inheritance
3 Saving for a Rainy Day: Social Security in Late-Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada
4 The First Stage of the Modern Era: Workers’ Compensation in Ontario
5 The Social Impact of the First World War
6 The 1920s: No Priorities for Welfare
7 The Depression Decade: Cracking the Residual Mould
8 The Second World War: Catalyst for Social Security Advances
9 The 1950s: “Our Conservative Decade”
10 The 1960s: Filling the Gaps
11 Stemming a Residual Tide
12 Unfinished Business: The Social Security Review of 1973 to 1976
13 Social Security in the 1980s
14 A Sombre Anniversary
15 Debating the Future of Social Securty
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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