Pension (In)Securities: Unpaid Work, Precarious Employment and the Canadian Pension System

Authors

  • Freya Kodar York University

Keywords:

Canadian Pension Plan, Government policy, Federal government - Canada, Retirement - planning, Social citizenship, Welfare state

Abstract

The growth in precarious employment and an escalating crisis in social reproduction suggest increasing retirement insecurity for Canadians, particularly for those (mainly women) doing unpaid care work over their life cycle. Reforms aimed at redistributing paid work time and the sex/gender division of labour have the most transformative potential.

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Author Biography

Freya Kodar, York University

Freya Kodar is a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

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Published

2004-04-01

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2004): Special Issue: Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work

Section

Original Research

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