Social Purpose for Canada / Michael Oliver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oliver, Michael, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Social policy.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 472 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Where is Canada going in the next half-century? Have her people a sense of purpose for themselves or their country in the dangerous excitements of the affluent society and the nuclear age? A number of writers well known for their articles and books on the Canadian cultural, social, and political sense come together here to take up these vital questions. Their concern has been to reveal the purposeless, the mediocre, the inequitable beneath the glitter of our prosperity and to issue a challenge to all Canadians to become fully alive as individuals and as citizens to both the dangers and the potentialities of the post-Hiroshima world. This book is social criticism at its best-alert, authoritative, urgent.This common concern brought the authors together in the planning of an unusual book. The finished work shows that they share a left-of-centre viewpoint; it also shows that they write as individuals. The essays, it is confidently predicted, will be found greatly stimulating for the high quality of their analysis by serious readers of all persuasions who are concerned about the Canadian society.

Contents:

Moral issues: An ethic of community, by G. Grant. Power and freedom in Canadian democracy, by J. Porter.

Social problems: The mass media, by N. Compton. Canadian education: a utopian approach, by A. Greene. Social class and education, by J. Porter. Social welfare services in Canada, by J.S. Morgan.

The economy: On the economics of social democracy, by J.C. Weldon. Concentration and monopoly in the Canadian economy, by G. Rosenbluth. Planning for economic progress: resource development and capital investment, by H.S. Gordon. Policies for a stable economy, by A. Breton. Agriculture, by M. Brownstone. Labour unionism and collective bargaining, by S. Jamieson.

Politics: The practice and theory of federalism, by P.E. Trudeau. Social planning and Canadian federalism, by F.R. Scott. Municipal government, by K. Callard. Democratic socialist politics for Canada, by M. Oliver. Foreign policy, by K. McNaught.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7809-1

OCLC:

1090920826