13 The Political Economy of Social Policy in Canada

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables vii
4. List of Figures ix
5. Introduction: Changes, Crises, and Conflicts in Canadian Political Economy 1
6. Section 1: Approaches to Canadian Political Economy
7. 1 Historical Canadian Political Economy 25
8. 2 Dependent Technological Change: The Long Arc of Canadian Innovation and Political Economic Development 42
9. 3 Canada’s Continental Political Economy 69
10. 4 “This country has another story”: Colonial Crisis, Treaty Relationships, and Indigenous Women’s Futurities 86
11. 5 Canadian Ecological Political Economy 103
12. Section 2: Agents in Canadian Political Economy
13. 6 The Politics of Public Administration: Constructing the Neoliberal State 123
14. 7 Political Economy and the Canadian Working Class: Conflict, Crisis, and Change 145
15. 8 Corporations and Corporate Power 173
16. 9 Co-operatives 193
17. 10 The Political Economy of the Non-profit Sector 215
18. Section 3: Applications of Canadian Political Economy
19. 11 Inequality 237
20. 12 Urban Political Economy, Poverty, and Inequality in Canada 254
21. 13 The Political Economy of Social Policy in Canada 278
22. 14 Canadian Trade and Trade Agreements: Free or Fair? 297
23. 15 Money and Finance 320
24. Conclusion: Advancing Canadian Political Economy 349
25. Bibliography 353
26. Contributors 419
27. Index 425