Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario: Theory and EvidenceC. M. Beach D. E. Card F. Flatters Toronto: University of Toronto Press (for the Ontario Economic Council), 1981, pp. ix, 389 - The Redistribution of Income in CanadaW. Irwin Gillespie Toronto: Gage Publishing Limited (for the Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University), 1980, pp. vii, 214 - Class Tells: On Social Inequality in CanadaAlfred A. Hunter Toronto: Butterworths, 1981, pp. ix, 264 - Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social WelfareAllan Moscovitch and Glenn Drover eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981, pp. ix, 386 - Economic Inequality in CanadaLars Ogsberg Toronto: Butterworths, 1981, pp. vii, 236

Prisons across the globe are manifestations of inequality. In any society, its most marginalised groups are overrepresented in prisons and all institutions of criminal justice. Notwithstanding this universal condition of contemporary criminal justice, the link between social inequality and inequality of punishment has been found to be tenuous and elusive. This contribution addresses the question how socio-economic inequality shapes the manifestations of punishment for a global sample of countries. As socio-economic inequality and criminal punishment are both multi-faceted concepts, several indicators are used for each. The findings confirm the highly contextual nature of the link between inequality and criminal punishment; they suggest a variegated impact of political economies, and a multiplicity of mechanisms that link inequality and criminal punishment across the globe.

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The Political Economy of Business BailoutsMichael Trebilcock, Marsha Chandler, Morley Gunderson, Paul Halpern et Jack Quinn Toronto: Ontario Economic Council Research Studies, University of Toronto Press, 1985, 2 vols., 472 p. et 318 p.

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423900055219 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 832-835

Author(s):

Marc Chabot

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

The Political ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Economic Council ◽

Research Studies

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K. J. Rea, The Political Economy of the Canadian North: An Interpretation of the Course of Development in the Northern Territories of Canada to the Early 1960's. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in association with the University of Saskatchewan, 1968, pp. viii, 453.

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423900024719 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 129-130

Author(s):

John Melling

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

The Political ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Canadian North ◽

Northern Territories ◽

The University

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Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945–1997

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423904280106 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 747-748

Author(s):

Candace Johnson

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Welfare State ◽

Unemployment Insurance ◽

The Political ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Labour Requirement ◽

Productive Labour ◽

Post War ◽

The Welfare State

Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945–1997, Ann Porter, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 355It is amazing that Canadian society has been consistently bewildered as to the social, political and economic placement of women. In her new book, Ann Porter explains that the labour requirement that enabled women's participation in the workforce during the Second World War created a post-war environment that was inequitable, illogical, gendered, and “regulating.” Thus, progressive measures were to produce regressive results, as they were taken for the sake of nationalism and not gender equality. Porter documents the change in Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy from limited coverage for certain groups of male workers that could not engage in productive labour to “site of contestation over women's entitlement to state benefits” (66).

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