Contributing Citizens tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community Chests, the forerunners of today's United Way, to provide a unique perspective on the evolution of professional fundraising, private charity, and the development of the welfare state. Blending a national perspective with rich case studies of Halifax, Ottawa, and Vancouver, Shirley Tillotson shows that fundraising work in the mid-twentieth century involved organizing and promoting social responsibility in new ways, sometimes coercively. In the...
Shortlisted for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Contributing Citizens tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community C...
Enthralling, witty, and masterful, Give and Take brings to light Canada's surprisingly unruly tax history, showing the tax clashes and compromises that made Canadian democracy.
Enthralling, witty, and masterful, Give and Take brings to light Canada's surprisingly unruly tax history, showing the tax clashes and compromises tha...
