From UI to EI : waging war on the welfare state
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From UI to EI : waging war on the welfare state
（Law and society series）
UBC Press, c2005
- : pbk
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De l'assurance-chômage à l'assurance-emploi
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-223) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada's system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create the right conditions for full employment, they were obligated to compensate people who could not find work. While unemployment insurance expanded over several decades to the benefit of the rights of the unemployed, the mid-1970s saw the first stirrings of a counterattack as the federal government's Keynesian strategy came under siege. Neo-liberalists denounced unemployment insurance and other aspects of the welfare state as inflationary and unproductive. Employment was increasingly thought to be a personal responsibility and the handling of the unemployed was to reflect a free-market approach. This regressive movement culminated in the 1990s counter-reforms, heralding a major policy shift. The number of unemployed with access to benefits was halved during that time.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"