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Book Reviews : Women and the Canadian Welfare State: Challenges and Change. Edited by Patricia Evans and Gerda Wekerle. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 329 pp., $50 (hardbound), $24.95 (paper

Book Reviews : Women and the Canadian Welfare State: Challenges and Change. Edited by Patricia... of women’s this book the case studies organizations, complements in the social work but no further than the literature, presented goes here. It is the social work not used literature, Bordt, summary given by the of which us understand women’s as helps struggles organizations to retain their collectivist forms and avoid the toward they try pull more traditional bureaucracies. H. ROSLYN CHERNESKY Fordham University Graduate School Social Service of New New York York, Women and the Canadian State: and Edited Welfare Challenges Change. by Patricia Evans and Gerda Wekerle. Toronto: of Toronto University $50 $24.95 Press, 1997, 329 (hardbound), pp., (paper). With the conservative at the welfare Right steadily chipping away state a severe national debt crisis and the model, overhead, looming of the the for impact global economy increasing competition cheap Canada’s welfare state has become imitative of its labor, increasingly to the south In this cold Wormer, climate, (van 1997). neighbor political Evans and Wekerle’s book is a antidote. In this feminist and timely the authors delve into of social volume, scholarly important aspects welfare in a of crisis that have period political-economic important for women. consequences into three sections-the welfare state in transi- Organized major the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Women and the Canadian Welfare State: Challenges and Change. Edited by Patricia Evans and Gerda Wekerle. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 329 pp., $50 (hardbound), $24.95 (paper

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0886-1099
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1552-3020
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10.1177/088610999801300410
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Abstract

of women’s this book the case studies organizations, complements in the social work but no further than the literature, presented goes here. It is the social work not used literature, Bordt, summary given by the of which us understand women’s as helps struggles organizations to retain their collectivist forms and avoid the toward they try pull more traditional bureaucracies. H. ROSLYN CHERNESKY Fordham University Graduate School Social Service of New New York York, Women and the Canadian State: and Edited Welfare Challenges Change. by Patricia Evans and Gerda Wekerle. Toronto: of Toronto University $50 $24.95 Press, 1997, 329 (hardbound), pp., (paper). With the conservative at the welfare Right steadily chipping away state a severe national debt crisis and the model, overhead, looming of the the for impact global economy increasing competition cheap Canada’s welfare state has become imitative of its labor, increasingly to the south In this cold Wormer, climate, (van 1997). neighbor political Evans and Wekerle’s book is a antidote. In this feminist and timely the authors delve into of social volume, scholarly important aspects welfare in a of crisis that have period political-economic important for women. consequences into three sections-the welfare state in transi- Organized major the

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social WorkSAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1998

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