Ernie S Lightman
Biographic Data
| ID | 347234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernie S Lightman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernie S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightman |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTMAN E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank
This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precarious employment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy. Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the composition of food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare two groups offood bank users, one with at least one household member working, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the life experiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar:…
Social assistance in a shrinking Canadian welfare state
Social assistance, variously known as “welfare” or “the dole”, stands at the very base of the modern welfare state and must remain when all other societal, community and family supports have vanished. This paper examines social assistance in Canada, primarily through the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP), the key legislation operative in the area of divided jurisdiction between the central and provincial governments. It considers how CAP has fared in …
Earnings Disregards in Canada, Britain, and Israel
This article examines and compares the earnings disregards or work-incentive programs of Canada, Britain, and Israel, finding a broad similarity in approach among the programs (though details differ). While ostensibly facilitating a transition from welfare to paid work through gradual benefit reduction, each country, in practice, erects formidable financial barriers: benefit reduction or tax-back rates that rapidly exceed 100 percent. Reasons for…
Welfare Ideologies and Theories of Federalism
This paper examines from a theoretical perspective how each of three major ideological orientations towards the welfare state (structural left; social democracy; new/far right) might incorporate an intermediate level of interest between a central and local governments—namely, a province. While the analysis is most straightforward at either end of the spectrum, it is complex for the middle grouping. The paper observes one commonality across all po…
Welfare ideology, the market and the family
Social Workers, Strikes, and Service to Clients
Women and Voluntary Blood Donation
This study explores the patterns of and motivations for voluntary blood donation by men and women in Toronto, Canada. Examining social systems with differently structured opportunities for altruism illustrates both the influence of the sex-role differential on altruism, and also the impact of these social structures upon sex-role behaviour. Data are drawn from a postal questionnaire completed by a random sample of about 1,000 males and 850 female…
Professionalization, Bureaucratization, and Unionization in Social Work
This study examines the perception within social work of incompatibility between professional status (implying a service norm) and unionization (reflecting selfinterest). Attitudinal data were collected through personal structured interviews with 121 randomly chosen professional social workers in Toronto. The vast majority saw no incompatibility; indeed, many felt unionization may facilitate service goals, offsetting workplace bureaucracy. Respon…
The Private Employer and the Prison Industry
Journal Article THE PRIVATE EMPLOYER AND THE PRISON INDUSTRY Get access ERNIE S. LIGHTMAN ERNIE S. LIGHTMAN ** Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work and Centre for Industrial Relations; Research Fellow, University of Bristol and Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, 1981–82 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 22, Issue 1, Jan…
Technique bias in measuring acts of altruism
Continuity in Social Policy Behaviours: The Case of Voluntary Blood Donorship
Using voluntary blood donation as a case example, the study on which this article is based explored not only the extent, or breadth, of community involvement in social policy behaviours, but also the continuity, or depth, of this commitment. Demographic and motivational data were collected through a postal questionnaire returned by 1,784 persons who had voluntarily donated blood at least once in metropolitan Toronto between 1974 and 1978. An empi…
Attrition of Applicants to the Canadian Armed Forces
Conciliation and Arbitration in Family Disputes
Incomes Policy and Capital Sharing in Europe
Incomes Policy: What Can We Learn from Europe
Continuity in Social Policy Behaviours: The Case of Voluntary Blood Donorship
Using voluntary blood donation as a case example, the study on which this article is based explored not only the extent, or breadth, of community involvement in social policy behaviours, but also the continuity, or depth, of this commitment. Demographic and motivational data were collected through a postal questionnaire returned by 1,784 persons who had voluntarily donated blood at least once in metropolitan Toronto between 1974 and 1978. An empi…
Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank
This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precarious employment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy. Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the composition of food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare two groups offood bank users, one with at least one household member working, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the life experiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar:…
Attrition of Applicants to the Canadian Armed Forces
Professionalization, Bureaucratization, and Unionization in Social Work
This study examines the perception within social work of incompatibility between professional status (implying a service norm) and unionization (reflecting selfinterest). Attitudinal data were collected through personal structured interviews with 121 randomly chosen professional social workers in Toronto. The vast majority saw no incompatibility; indeed, many felt unionization may facilitate service goals, offsetting workplace bureaucracy. Respon…
Incomes Policy: What Can We Learn from Europe
Incomes Policy and Capital Sharing in Europe
Conciliation and Arbitration in Family Disputes
Attrition of Applicants to the Canadian Armed Forces
Continuity in Social Policy Behaviours: The Case of Voluntary Blood Donorship
Using voluntary blood donation as a case example, the study on which this article is based explored not only the extent, or breadth, of community involvement in social policy behaviours, but also the continuity, or depth, of this commitment. Demographic and motivational data were collected through a postal questionnaire returned by 1,784 persons who had voluntarily donated blood at least once in metropolitan Toronto between 1974 and 1978. An empi…
Women and Voluntary Blood Donation
This study explores the patterns of and motivations for voluntary blood donation by men and women in Toronto, Canada. Examining social systems with differently structured opportunities for altruism illustrates both the influence of the sex-role differential on altruism, and also the impact of these social structures upon sex-role behaviour. Data are drawn from a postal questionnaire completed by a random sample of about 1,000 males and 850 female…
Professionalization, Bureaucratization, and Unionization in Social Work
This study examines the perception within social work of incompatibility between professional status (implying a service norm) and unionization (reflecting selfinterest). Attitudinal data were collected through personal structured interviews with 121 randomly chosen professional social workers in Toronto. The vast majority saw no incompatibility; indeed, many felt unionization may facilitate service goals, offsetting workplace bureaucracy. Respon…
The Private Employer and the Prison Industry
Journal Article THE PRIVATE EMPLOYER AND THE PRISON INDUSTRY Get access ERNIE S. LIGHTMAN ERNIE S. LIGHTMAN ** Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work and Centre for Industrial Relations; Research Fellow, University of Bristol and Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, 1981–82 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 22, Issue 1, Jan…
Technique bias in measuring acts of altruism
Social Workers, Strikes, and Service to Clients
Welfare Ideologies and Theories of Federalism
This paper examines from a theoretical perspective how each of three major ideological orientations towards the welfare state (structural left; social democracy; new/far right) might incorporate an intermediate level of interest between a central and local governments—namely, a province. While the analysis is most straightforward at either end of the spectrum, it is complex for the middle grouping. The paper observes one commonality across all po…
Welfare ideology, the market and the family
Earnings Disregards in Canada, Britain, and Israel
This article examines and compares the earnings disregards or work-incentive programs of Canada, Britain, and Israel, finding a broad similarity in approach among the programs (though details differ). While ostensibly facilitating a transition from welfare to paid work through gradual benefit reduction, each country, in practice, erects formidable financial barriers: benefit reduction or tax-back rates that rapidly exceed 100 percent. Reasons for…
Social assistance in a shrinking Canadian welfare state
Social assistance, variously known as “welfare” or “the dole”, stands at the very base of the modern welfare state and must remain when all other societal, community and family supports have vanished. This paper examines social assistance in Canada, primarily through the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP), the key legislation operative in the area of divided jurisdiction between the central and provincial governments. It considers how CAP has fared in …
Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank
This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precarious employment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy. Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the composition of food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare two groups offood bank users, one with at least one household member working, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the life experiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar:…
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