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Title Restructuring societies : insights from the social sciences / edited by David B. Knight and Alun E. Joseph.

Publication Info. Ottawa [Ont.] : Carleton University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Based on a series of lectures given by Winegard Visiting Professors at the University of Guelph, 1996-97.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Social Sciences and Public Policy in Restructuring Societies / Alun E. Joseph, David B. Knight -- Two Men Against Revolution: Edmund Burke and George Orwell / Bob Rae -- Democracy and Geography in the Reregulation of New Zealand / Warren Moran -- Changing Employment Relations: Empirical Data, Social Perspectives and Policy Options / Julian Barling -- Rural Retreat: the Social Impact of Restructuring in Three Ontario Communities / Belinda Leach, Anthony Winson -- Iron Men, True Men, and the Art of Treaty-Making / Olive Patricia Dickason -- Listening and Heeding: Challenges of Restructuring the Relationship Between Aboriginal Peoples and Canada / Jackie Wolfe-Keddie -- Figures -- Compositional Changes in the Number of Hours Worked Per Week in Canada Between 1976 and 1996 -- Increase in Part-Time Jobs in Canada Between 1975 and 1993 -- Increases in Voluntary and Non-Voluntary Part-Time Work in the United States, 1968-93 -- Increases in Voluntary and Non-Voluntary Part-Time Work in Canada, 1975-93 -- Tables -- A Periodization of the New Zealand Reforms, 1984-95 -- Characteristics of Laid-Off Plant Workers -- Pre- and Post-Layoff Wages by Plant (C$) -- Comparison of Full-Time and Part-Time Work -- Instruments of Assimilation, Protection, Separation, and Neglect -- A Social Crisis -- Acts of Parliament Recommended by the Royal Commission to Implement the Restructuring of the Relationship -- A Demographic Crisis -- Rebuilding of Capacity in Individuals and Communities.
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Subject Social policy.
Social policy.
Social change.
Social change.
Social sciences.
Social sciences.
Canada -- Social policy.
Canada.
Canada -- Social conditions -- 1971-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Joseph, A. E. (Alun E.)
Knight, David B.
Other Form: Print version: Restructuring societies. [Ottawa] : Carleton University Press, ©1999 (DLC) 2005391567
ISBN 9780773574151 (electronic book)
0773574158 (electronic book)
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9780886293444
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