Struggling for Social Citizenship: Disabled Canadians, Income Security, and Prime Ministerial Eras

by Michael J. Prince

The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program's origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single largest public contributory disability plan in the country...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773547045
• ISBN13: 9780773547049
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"