Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, West Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
Associate Professor at UOIT, Faculty of Heath Sciences University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Int J Health Serv. 2021 Oct;51(4):509-520. doi: 10.1177/0020731420987079. Epub 2021 Feb 1.
This article focuses on Canada's liberal welfare state and the COVID-19 pandemic, offering an overview of some of the unequal health and social effects of the crisis. It argues that the policy response to the pandemic should be situated within a broader pattern of welfare restructuring and organization that serves to instrumentalize economic insecurity and extend labor discipline. Without making firm predictions about the future, we argue that this is likely to reproduce increasingly unequal patterns of welfare access, providing benefits to some constituents while disciplining vulnerable groups to facilitate competitive gains.
本文聚焦于加拿大的自由福利国家以及 COVID-19 大流行，概述了这场危机在健康和社会方面造成的一些不平等后果。文章认为，应将大流行的政策应对置于更广泛的福利重构和组织模式的背景下，因为这种模式旨在利用经济不安全，并扩大劳动力纪律。虽然我们没有对未来做出确切的预测，但我们认为，这很可能会再现福利获取日益不平等的模式，为一些选民提供好处，同时对弱势群体进行纪律约束，以促进竞争优势。
