New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program : History Through a Social Work Lens / Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, Linda M. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewey, Laurel, author.

Richard, Louis J., author.

Turner, Linda M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--New Brunswick.

Social service.

New Brunswick.

New Brunswick--Social conditions.

New Brunswick--Social policy.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity Program in the 1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with limited access to welfare, education, and health services. New Brunswick's social services framework was similar to that of nineteenth-century England, and many people experienced the patronizing attitudes inherent in these laws. New Brunswick Before Equal Opportunity examines the observations and experiences of New Brunswick's early social workers, who operated under this system, and illuminates how Premier Louis J. Robichaud's Equal Opportunity Program transformed the province's social services. Authors Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard and Linda Turner, describe more than a century of social work history, including the work of the earliest Acadian social workers. They also address the fact that the federal government did not take responsibility for social welfare of the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people, planning for assimilation instead. Clan structures continued to be relied on while subsisting upon inadequate relief provisions."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

A history of the peoples of New Brunswick

Historical, economic, and political contexts of service provision

Poor law legislation and the poverty experience

Origins and development of social care agencies and networks

The evolution of child welfare

A portrait of New Brunswick's earliest social workers

The first Acadian social workers

Social workers experience child welfare : view from the trenches

Ushering in equal opportunity

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1553-7

1-4875-1552-9

OCLC:

1042329657