>Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 02:00:12 -0500 (EST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ow-watch-digest) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ow-watch-digest V1 #420 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > > >ow-watch-digest Friday, November 13 1998 Volume 01 : Number 420 > > > >OW-WATCH-L New book release > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:24:29 -0500 >From: Clinic Resource Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OW-WATCH-L New book release > >Dear listmembers: > >Many of you probably know or know of Professor Margaret Little, Queens >University. Margaret is that rare combination: a scholar who is also long >time committed anti-poverty activist. > >Margaret's PHD thesis, a history of the Mothers Allowance program in >Ontario from the perspective of poor single mothers has just been published >by Oxford Universtity Press. It examines the history of Mothers Allowance >from its introduction in 1920 to its disappearance as a separate program >and the elimination of special consideration for single mothers under the >Harris government. It is an important addition to the tiny body of academic >literature about social assistance in Canada written from "the bottom up" >rather than from top down. > >Copies of "'No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit': The moral regulation of >single mothers in Ontario, 1920-1997" are $24.95 and are available from: > >Oxford University Press >Attn: Suzanne Wice >70 Wynford Drive, Don Mills Ont M3C 1J9 >Ph. 416.441.2941 or 1.800.387.8020 >fax 416.441.0345 > >www.oupcan.com > >A formal book launch (and party) are currently planned for Wednesday >December 9 at OASIS in Toronto. > > >Ian Morrison >Clinic Resource Office >100 - 173 Dufferin Street >Toronto, Ontario M6K 1Y9 >Canada > >416-516-1355 p >416-516-1359 f >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >------------------------------ > >End of ow-watch-digest V1 #420 >****************************** >
