Cette conférence sera en anglais.
This public lecture will be in English.
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
presents
Social Policy for the Next Generation: Work, Incomes, Families and the Welfare State
John Myles
Professor, University of Toronto.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Desmarais Building, room 3120
Our welfare state was created in a different time with different social risks. The generation entering adulthood today faces a very different life course agenda in making “good lives” for themselves and their children. In this lecture, I argue that the revolution in demographic and family behaviour, processes that are largely immune to social intervention, pose the next great challenge to social policy makers.
John Myles is Canada Research Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Senior Visiting Research Scholar at Statistics Canada. He was Professor of Sociology at Carleton University until 1992 and then University Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University until 2001. He has written widely on topics related to the politics of the welfare state, classes in contemporary capitalism, income inequality, and child and old age poverty.
John is the recipient of the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociology Association, Section on Aging, the 1995 Innis Award (with Wallace Clement) for best book in Canadian social sciences, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
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