Alvin Finkel is a professor of history at Athabasca University, Alberta. His publications include leading texts in Canadian history, as well as monographs on social policy, western Canadian political history, and inter-war European politics. He has published widely on social policy issues. Current book review editor of Labour/Le Travail, Alvin Finkel is also the past editor of Prairie Forum.
``A must read for anyone interested in social policy.... Highly
recommended.'' -- D.A. Chekki, University of Winnipeg -- CHOICE,
March 2007, 200701
``This study provides a good synthesis of a wide array of primary
and secondary material covering a host of temporal and spatial
locations. It deserves the attention of those interested in the
history of social policy and the history of the welfare state --
student and specialist alike.'' -- Kurt Korneski, Memorial
University of Newfoundland -- Labour/Le Travail, Volume 60, Winter
2007, 200801
``This book is a useful synthesis of a great many, mostly secondary
sources about the ideas and process behind social policy in
Canada.... Canada is far from having a social policy that creates
an integrated society in which all citizens live at a decent
standard without regard to class, gender, race, or level of income.
Today there is a growing gap between rich and poor and our social
system still reflects substantial gender inequities. This book
helps explain why.'' -- Laurel Sefton Macdowell -- University of
Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2006, Volume 77, Number 1,
Winter 2008, 200807
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