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New Brunswick before the Equal Opportunity Program : history through a social work lens

Lewey, Laurel, 1951- author, Richard, Louis J., author, Turner, Linda, 1960- author, St-Amand, Néré, writer of foreword

Overview

\"Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity Program in the 1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with limited access to welfare, education, and health services. New Brunswick's social services framework was similar to that of nineteenth-century England, and many people experienced the patronizing attitudes inherent in these laws. New Brunswick Before Equal Opportunity examines the observations and experiences of New Brunswick's early social workers, who operated under this system, and illuminates how Premier Louis J. Robichaud's Equal Opportunity Program transformed the province's social services. Authors Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard and Linda Turner, describe more than a century of social work history, including the work of the earliest Acadian social workers. They also address the fact that the federal government did not take responsibility for social welfare of the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people, planning for assimilation instead. Clan structures continued to be relied on while subsisting upon inadequate relief provisions.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Social service New Brunswick History. / Social workers New Brunswick History. / Child welfare New Brunswick History. / HISTORY / Social History. / Child welfare. / Social conditions. / Social policy. / Social service. / Social workers. / New Brunswick Social policy. / New Brunswick Social conditions. / New Brunswick.
• ISBN: 9781487502539, 1487502532

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN110.N48 L49 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE