From UI to EI : waging war on the welfare state /

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 creat...

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Main Author: Campeau, Georges
Other Authors: Howard, Richard, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2004.
Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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