Legislated Inequality
Title | Legislated Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Patti Tamara Lenard |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0773540415 |
A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.
Legislated Inequality
Title | Legislated Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Patti Tamara Lenard |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0773586938 |
Historically, Canada has adopted immigration policies focused on admitting migrants who were expected to become citizens. A dramatic shift has occurred in recent years as the number of temporary labourers admitted to Canada has increased substantially. Legislated Inequality critically evaluates this radical development in Canadian immigration, arguing that it threatens to undermine Canada's success as an immigrant nation. Assessing each of the four major temporary labour migration programs in Canada, contributors from a range of disciplines - including comparative political science, philosophy, and sociology - show how temporary migrants are posed to occupy a permanent yet marginal status in society and argue that Canada's temporary labour policy must undergo fundamental changes in order to support Canada's long held immigration goals. The difficult working conditions faced by migrant workers, as well as the economic and social dangers of relying on temporary migration to relieve labour shortages, are described in detail. Legislated Inequality provides an essential critical analysis of the failings of temporary labour migration programs in Canada and proposes tangible ways to improve the lives of labourers. Contributors include Abigail B. Bakan (Queen's University), Tom Carter (University of Manitoba), Sarah D'Aoust (University of Ottawa), Christina Gabriel (Carleton University), Jill Hanley (McGill University), Jenna Hennebry (Wilfrid Laurier University), Christine Hughes (Carleton University), Karen D. Hughes (University of Alberta), Jahhon Koo (McGill University), Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa), Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Janet McLaughlin (Wilfrid Laurier University), Delphine Nakache (University of Ottawa), Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez (Université de Montréal), Kerry Priebisch (University of Guelph), André Rivard (University of Windsor), Nandita Sharma (University of Hawaii), Eric Shragge (Concordia University), Denise Spitzer (University of Ottawa), Daiva Stasuilus (Carleton University) Christine Straehle (University of Ottawa), Patricia Tomic (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), Sarah Torres (University of Ottawa), and Richard Trumper (University of British Columbia, Okanagan).
Language and the Law
Title | Language and the Law PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Kibbee |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-08-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107025311 |
A comprehensive overview of the political and legal consequences of linguistic inequality in the United States.
Law and Education Inequality
Title | Law and Education Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Susan C. Bon |
Publisher | Information Age Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781681231747 |
A volume in Law & Education series Series Editors: Jeffrey C. Sun, University of Louisville and Susan C. Bon, University of South Carolina Policies intended to shape student achievement and access at schools and colleges have changed significantly over the past decade. No Child Left Behind, Common Core, Race to the Top, data mining initiatives, Title IX gender equity, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and executive actions on immigration illustrate key federal initiatives that have redefined standards, priorities, and practices within educational institutions. Similarly, state policies in terms of school funding, school choice, teacher qualifications, student bullying, and other measures have added another layer of complexity to the education law and policy dialogue particularly when addressing matters of education inequality. These emergent policies beget the question: how have these policies contributed to easing the effects of educational inequality? The purpose of this book is to examine the role of law as potentially countering or impeding desirable education reforms, and it calls on readers to consider how policymakers, lawyers, social scientists, and educators might best alter the course in an effort to advance a more just and less unequal educational system.
Constitutional Inequality
Title | Constitutional Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Steiner |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780815714293 |
Traces the history of the Equal Rights Amendment, explains why it failed to pass, and assesses its chances for future passage.
Inequality and Tax Policy
Title | Inequality and Tax Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin A. Hassett |
Publisher | American Enterprise Institute |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780844741444 |
Top economists provide much-needed guidance--and some surprising conclusions--in response to rising public concerns about inequality in the U.S. tax system.
Degrees of Inequality
Title | Degrees of Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Mettler |
Publisher | Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0465044964 |
America’s higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens. The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled Americans from across the income spectrum to attend college and the nation led the world in the percentage of young adults with baccalaureate degrees. Yet since 1980, progress has stalled. Young adults from low to middle income families are not much more likely to graduate from college than four decades ago. When less advantaged students do attend, they are largely sequestered into inferior and often profit-driven institutions, from which many emerge without degrees—and shouldering crushing levels of debt. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account, she illuminates how political partisanship has overshadowed America’s commitment to equal access to higher education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners of for-profit colleges benefit, but for far too many students, higher education leaves them with little besides crippling student loan debt. Meanwhile, the nation’s public universities have shifted the burden of rising costs onto students. In an era when a college degree is more linked than ever before to individual—and societal—well-being, these pressures conspire to make it increasingly difficult for students to stay in school long enough to graduate. By abandoning their commitment to students, politicians are imperiling our highest ideals as a nation. Degrees of Inequality offers an impassioned call to reform a higher education system that has come to exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequality in America.