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This book is an institutional ethnographic investigation of the Ontario Works program and the problems that it creates in the lives of people on social assistance. Ontario Works is a work-for-welfare program that was implemented in Ontario in 1996 as part of the neoliberal restructuring of the welfare state. The book shows that Ontario Works has not, in reality, been used to help people on assistance and rather has been used as another means of facilitating an attack on them, while providing subsidized and cheap labour for companies and social agencies.
Price: $21.00
Pages: 112
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Series: Fernwood Basics Series
Publication Date:
23 July 2010
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552663516
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
Julie Vaillancourt has degrees in criminology and sociology and is a graduate of the Applied Social Research Program at Laurentian University. She lives in Sudbury, Ontario.
: Introduction
: Welfare Within the Capitalist System
: Problems in the Everyday Lives of Recipients
: Enforcing Work Norms
: Ontario Works - Program Priorities
: Problems for Participating Organizations
: Meeting the Needs of Social Assistance Recipients
: References