From Ui to Ei: Waging War on the Welfare State

by Georges Campeau and Richard Howard

Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada's system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create the right conditions for full employment, they were obligated to compensate people who could not find work. While unemployment insurance expanded over several...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774811226
• ISBN13: 9780774811224
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 256 Pages