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Making of Post-War Canada

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ISBN-10: 0195409205

ISBN-13: 9780195409208

Edition: 1997

Authors: Peter S. Li

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As they enter the twenty-first century, Canada's postwar baby-boomers have witnessed the consolidation of corporate capitalism, the expansion of the wage labour market, and the restructuring of industries and occupations. Recognition of such trends as they unfold is often elusive. The Making of Post-War Canada documents major social changes: women's entry into the paid labour market; a decline in fertility and family size; a preponderance of dual-earner families; the rise of the welfare state; an ageing Canadian population; increased immigration; and emerging collective claims, notably by women, Que'bcois, the visible minority, and native peoples. Peter Li provides a theoretical coherence…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/27/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638

Social Change and Society
Population Change in Canadian History
The Logic of Social Change
Social Relations of the Fur Trade
Mode of Production and Social Formation
Capitalism and Social Change
The Post-War Generation in Canada
Corporate Capitalism in Canada
Features of Corporate Capitalism in Canada
Changes in Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Control
Corporate Concentration
Labour as a Commodity Under Capitalism
The Growth of the Capitalist Labour Market
The Restructuring of the Capitalist Labour Market
Capitalist Production and Mass Consumption
Participation of Women in the Labour Market
Division of Labour and Scientific Management under Corporate Capitalism
Restructuring of Industries and Work
Changes in the Occupational Structure
Women and Jobs
The Nature and Cost of Women's Labour in the Labour Market
Labour Reproduction and the Family
Response Strategies of the Family to the Wage Economy
Dual Earner Families, Earnings and Debt Load
The Cost of Labour Renewal
The Trend of Declining Fertility
Lone-Parent Families and Other Changes in the Family
The Wage Economy and the Family
The Demographic Shift and the Welfare State
The Demographic Shift in Canada
The Welfare State under Capitalism
The Development of the Welfare State in Canada
The Cost of the Welfare State
The Fiscal Crisis of the State
Immigration and the Recruitment of Labour and Capital
Overview of Immigration to Canada
Changes in Canada's Post-War Immigration Policy
Immigration and the Skilled Labour Market
Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Force
Ethnic Diversity of Immigrants
The Recruitment of Business Immigrants and International Capital
Immigration and the Recruitment of Labour and Capital
Organized Interests and Collective Claims
Individual Rights and Social Inequality
Gender Inequality and the Women's Movement
Native Peoples and Aboriginal Rights
French Canadians and Quebec Separatism
Visible Minorities and Multiculturalism
Collective Rights and Political Changes
Post-War Canadian Society
Social Change and Society
Advanced Capitalism and Capitalist Labour Market
Women and the Restructuring of Occupations
Labour Reproduction and the Family
Demographic Shift and the Welfare State
Immigration and Labour
Organized Interests and Collective Claims
Canadian Society and Its Future
Appendix
Index