Report on social security for Canada / Leonard Marsh ; a new edition with an introduction by Allan Moscovitch.

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Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world. It outlined what governments could do to ensure that all citizens could afford the food, clothing, and shelter necessary to participate fully in their community. Authored by Leonard Marsh for the wartime Federal Advisory Committee on Reconstruction, the report was the subject of enormous attention when it was presented to the House of Commons in March 1943. Drawing on the work of his mentor, William Beveridge, and of John Maynard Keynes, Marsh primarily recommended an employment program meant to ensure lower unemployment and higher incomes. His report also discussed family allowances to make certain that no child would go without, health care insurance, temporary assistance in case of illness, a pension plan, and various other social benefits related to maternity, disability, loss of employment, and death. Today Report on Social Security for Canada is seen as a foundational text for the Canadian social security system. In this edition Allan Moscovitch provides the historical context, an outline of Marsh's accomplishments, and suggestions for how to enhance the welfare state and respond to the social needs of Canadians in the twenty-first century.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE BASIS OF THE TASK -- 1. Canadian Perspective -- 2. Categories of Social Need -- 3. Minimum Standards and Existing Social Legislation -- 4. Securance of the Social Minimum: Social Insurance Principles -- pt. TWO EMPLOYMENT -- 5. National Employment Programme -- 6. Occupational Readjustment: Placement, Guidance, and Training Facilities -- 7. Unemployment Insurance -- 8. Unemployment Assistance -- pt. THREE UNIVERSAL RISKS: SICKNESS, INVALIDITY, OLD AGE -- 9. Health Insurance (Medical Care) -- 10. Industrial Accident and Disease: Workmen's Compensation -- 11. Disability and Invalidity -- 12. Existing Old Age Pensions and Retirement Provisions -- 13. Contributory Retirement Insurance -- 14. Health Insurance and Other Social Security Plans -- pt. FOUR FAMILY NEEDS -- 15. Children's Allowances -- 16. Women's Needs in the Social Security System -- 17. Widowhood: Mothers' Allowances -- 18. Survivors' Insurance -- 19. Funeral Benefits -- pt. FIVE CONCLUSION -- 20. Outlines of a Comprehensive System -- 21. Constitutional and Administrative Decisions -- 22. Financial Considerations -- APPENDICES -- I. Industrial Accidents (Workmen's Compensation): provincial schedules of payments -- II. Fatal Accidents (Workmen's Compensation): provincial schedules of payments -- III. Mother's Allowances: Summary of main provisions in Canada -- IV. Training and Placement -- a. Dominion Employment Service Policy -- b. Selected Reports of Subcommittee on Post-War Employment Opportunities -- V. Industrial Retirement Plans in Canada -- VI. Rental Variations and the Minimum Standard.

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