Private Lives, Public Policy : 100 Years of State Intervention in the Family Book

	List of Tables
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	The Theory	4
	The Method	7
	Reading Options	11
	Towards a Theory of Reproduction	17
	Dual-Systems Model and the Problem of Evidence	19
	Reconceptualizing Reproduction	20
	Communal Patriarchy	23
	Reproduction and Class Formation	25
	Familial Patriarchy	27
	The Wage-Labour System and Familial Patriarchy	34
	Social Patriarchy	39
	Social Patriarchy, Corollary or Alternative?	42
	The Political Economy of Reproduction	47
	Familial and Social Patriarchy: The Essential Components of Modern Reproductive Relations	54
	From Theory to History	58
	Historical Background: The Impact of Industrialization in Canada	61
	Wage Labour and Reproduction	62
	Social Reform Movement	67
	Naming the Problem	70
	Business, Labour and Patriarchy	75
	Women and Patriarchy	80
	Period I: 1884-1913	83
	The Reformation of the Wage-Labour System	85
	Commissions and Inquiries	88
	Legislation	91
	Labour Bureaucracies	96
	Transformation of Patriarchy	99
	Family Law	101
	Welfare	106
	Commissions and Inquiries	107
	Welfare Legislation	111
	Welfare Bureaucracy	116
	Welfare Expenditures	120
	Summary	122
	Period II: 1914-1939	125
	Capital, Labour and the Economy	127
	Labour Commissions and Inquiries	132
	Labour Legislation	136
	Constructing Social Patriarchy	142
	Family Law	143
	Welfare Commissions and Inquiries	146
	Welfare Legislation	151
	Reorganization of the Welfare System	154
	Welfare Bureaucracy	160
	War, Depression and the Growth of Federal Welfare	165
	Welfare Expenditures	169
	Summary	172
	Period III: 1940-1968	175
	Patriarchy and Patriotism: The War and Reconstruction Years 1940-1947	179
	The War Economy	181
	Managing Labour	184
	Labour Inquiry Board	188
	The Family Allowance Act: A Wage Subsidy Program	190
	The Labour Relations Act: Privy Council Order 1003	198
	Women in the War Economy	202
	The New Welfare Ideology	204
	Commissions and Inquiries	209
	Welfare Legislation	216
	Welfare Expenditures	223
	Summary	226
	Post-War Canada 1948-1968	229
	Restructuring Reproduction	234
	Restructuring the Canadian Labour Market	239
	Labour Commissions and Inquiries	242
	Labour Legislation	244
	The Making of a National Welfare State	252
	Provincial Welfare Legislation	254
	Negotiating the Welfare State	266
	Welfare Expenditures	279
	Summary	282
	The State and the Future of Patriarchy	289
	Strategies for Change	298
	Appendix 1: A Note on the Research Process	307
	Appendix 2: Tables	321
	Notes	363
	Bibliography	373
	Index	391