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also available: Hardcover Paperback
category: Political Science
published: Sep 2011
ISBN:9781552779521
publisher: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
imprint: Lorimer

Canada's Fighting Seniors

by C. G. Gifford

tagged: social services & welfare
Description

First published in 1990, this book charts the emergence and rapid growth of Canada's powerful seniors' movement.

Seniors' political clout has been increasingly evident since the mid-eighties, when their protest convinced Brian Mulroney to drop his efforts to limit pension benefits. Gifford's book provides a short history of seniors' organizing and tells the personal and organizational stories of today's seniors' groups. Sections on the work of seniors' groups in the United States and Europe add a global dimension to the book's analysis.

Canada's Fighting Seniors is a pioneering study of the increasing organization and influence of older citizens in this country.

About the Author

C. G. Gifford

C.G. GIFFORD retired from his post as professor of social work at Dalhousie University in 1984. He is the author of numerous articles on social work, deliquency, seniors\ concerns and disarmament. He is co-founder and chairperson of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms.'

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