Decentralization looms large in any analysis of Canadian economic and social policy. This trend has been especially pronounced in the area of unemployment insurance (UI) and social assistance (SA) programmes. Provinces now manage SA programmes and retain 100% of any cost savings that they...

Motivation, Management, and Industrial Modernity -- Selling Work's Rewards: Psychological Motivation and Quests to Shape Minds and Behaviors in the Workplace -- Contests over Motivation and Work in the Great Depression -- The War over Motivation: Prosperity Rhetoric and the Remaking of Work's...

In the early 1990s, Anthony Fielding coined the term ‘escalator region’ to describe how London and the South East attracted those with greater human capital by offering them superior career prospects and enhanced returns in the housing markets. When delineating a housing or labour market...