Download or read book Patchworks of Purpose written by Gerard William Boychuk and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserts that Canada has ten different social assistance programs that reflect the historical development of assistance within each province. To examine specific patterns of social assistance, the author develops a five-fold typology consisting of residual, market/family enforcement, conservative, market performance, and redistributive models. He uses the typology to compare development of assistance provisions in the provinces, provincial responses to federal initiatives, and unique trajectories of assistance regimes. He concludes by surveying some of the broader implications of his findings for issues such as the development of national standards and the impact of globalization on social assistance provision. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR