Dean Herd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Herd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Herd |
| SIGNATURE | HERD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cycling Off and On Welfare in Canada
Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been replaced with 'active' labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries, Canada embraced this shift, with its emphasis on the 'shortest route' to paid employment.There has been little research on the outcomes of these dramatic changes in Canada, especially longer term. This article explores the post-welfare labour market experiences of pe…
Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario
Over recent decades welfare dependency has played a powerful role in defining the welfare “problem” and in passing appropriate “solutions.” One result has been the proliferation of short-term, low-cost employment programs and training programs that have emerged as critical sites for challenging and reforming the attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients. By exploring work-readiness programs in four communities in Ontario, Canada, we provide i…
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:…
Work First’ and Immigrants in Toronto
This paper examines the experiences of immigrants in Toronto as they pass through, and leave, Ontario Works (OW), a ‘Work First’ approach to social assistance that prioritizes rapid labour force attachment. We examine the Ontario Works activities of immigrants, compared to native born Canadians, and their respective post-OW job characteristics. We find that immigrants experience a significant relative wage disadvantage after participation, and su…
Exploring the Local Implementation of Ontario Works
Similarly, Ernie Lightman, Dean Herd, and Andrew Mitchell argue that the role of the federal government has been redefined rather than removed from welfare policy. While the decentralization of the Canada Health and Social Transfer resulted in the Ontario government's further downloading of responsibilities to the municipalities, the policy framework is still established by the federal government
One Year On: Tracking the Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Recipients in Toronto
Despite large welfare caseload declines in Ontario in recent years, little is known about the longer-term circumstances of people who leave welfare or remain on a much-changed system. This paper reports on a second round of qualitative interviews with current and former workfare participants in Toronto. The findings demonstrate how the lives of most remain marked by poverty, hunger and uncertainty, and reveal contradictions between the realities …
Workfare in Toronto: More of the Same
This paper uses a recent survey of welfare leavers in Toronto to examine Workfare, a uniquely American initiative introduced into Canada, with its different welfare state history and traditions. When classic American workfare was imported by an enthusiastic government in Ontario, its application led to employment outcomes remarkably similar to those in the US (reduced caseloads, insecure and contingent employment, high recidivism). Yet, Canada's …
Rituals of Degradation: Administration as Policy in the Ontario Works Programme
After the election of a neo-liberal provincial government in 1995, Ontario was at the forefront of work-based welfare reform in Canada. Many of the sweeping reforms carried out under the banner of the “Common Sense Revolution” received widespread coverage: for example, reductions in welfare rates, the introduction of the Ontario Works programme, the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy for so-called welfare fraud, and changes to the rules relating…
Welfare to What? After Workfare in Toronto
An employment survey among people in Toronto who left Ontario Works — a classic “work‐first” regime — shows clear secondary labour market status. Most interventions typical of work‐first programmes did not have a positive effect on job quality: contrary to the “stepping stones” theory that poor initial jobs lead to better jobs, those who changed jobs after leaving assistance experienced poorer job quality. A shift in orientation to “sustainable e…
Rhetoric and retrenchment: ‘Common sense’ welfare reform in Ontario
The adoption of the Canadian Health and Social Transfer (CHST) in 1995 signified a dramatic change in the philosophy and practice of welfare in Canada, creating the space for provincial workfare experiments. This article explores the operation of one such experiment – Ontario Works (OW) – which has been hailed as a success in the face of dramatic caseload declines. Rather than a successful welfare to work strategy, however, closer analysis sugges…
Rituals of Degradation: Administration as Policy in the Ontario Works Programme
After the election of a neo-liberal provincial government in 1995, Ontario was at the forefront of work-based welfare reform in Canada. Many of the sweeping reforms carried out under the banner of the “Common Sense Revolution” received widespread coverage: for example, reductions in welfare rates, the introduction of the Ontario Works programme, the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy for so-called welfare fraud, and changes to the rules relating…
Exploring the Local Implementation of Ontario Works
Similarly, Ernie Lightman, Dean Herd, and Andrew Mitchell argue that the role of the federal government has been redefined rather than removed from welfare policy. While the decentralization of the Canada Health and Social Transfer resulted in the Ontario government's further downloading of responsibilities to the municipalities, the policy framework is still established by the federal government
Welfare to What? After Workfare in Toronto
An employment survey among people in Toronto who left Ontario Works — a classic “work‐first” regime — shows clear secondary labour market status. Most interventions typical of work‐first programmes did not have a positive effect on job quality: contrary to the “stepping stones” theory that poor initial jobs lead to better jobs, those who changed jobs after leaving assistance experienced poorer job quality. A shift in orientation to “sustainable e…
Cycling Off and On Welfare in Canada
Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been replaced with 'active' labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries, Canada embraced this shift, with its emphasis on the 'shortest route' to paid employment.There has been little research on the outcomes of these dramatic changes in Canada, especially longer term. This article explores the post-welfare labour market experiences of pe…
One Year On: Tracking the Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Recipients in Toronto
Despite large welfare caseload declines in Ontario in recent years, little is known about the longer-term circumstances of people who leave welfare or remain on a much-changed system. This paper reports on a second round of qualitative interviews with current and former workfare participants in Toronto. The findings demonstrate how the lives of most remain marked by poverty, hunger and uncertainty, and reveal contradictions between the realities …
Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario
Over recent decades welfare dependency has played a powerful role in defining the welfare “problem” and in passing appropriate “solutions.” One result has been the proliferation of short-term, low-cost employment programs and training programs that have emerged as critical sites for challenging and reforming the attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients. By exploring work-readiness programs in four communities in Ontario, Canada, we provide i…
Work First’ and Immigrants in Toronto
This paper examines the experiences of immigrants in Toronto as they pass through, and leave, Ontario Works (OW), a ‘Work First’ approach to social assistance that prioritizes rapid labour force attachment. We examine the Ontario Works activities of immigrants, compared to native born Canadians, and their respective post-OW job characteristics. We find that immigrants experience a significant relative wage disadvantage after participation, and su…
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:…
Rhetoric and retrenchment: ‘Common sense’ welfare reform in Ontario
The adoption of the Canadian Health and Social Transfer (CHST) in 1995 signified a dramatic change in the philosophy and practice of welfare in Canada, creating the space for provincial workfare experiments. This article explores the operation of one such experiment – Ontario Works (OW) – which has been hailed as a success in the face of dramatic caseload declines. Rather than a successful welfare to work strategy, however, closer analysis sugges…
One Year On: Tracking the Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Recipients in Toronto
Despite large welfare caseload declines in Ontario in recent years, little is known about the longer-term circumstances of people who leave welfare or remain on a much-changed system. This paper reports on a second round of qualitative interviews with current and former workfare participants in Toronto. The findings demonstrate how the lives of most remain marked by poverty, hunger and uncertainty, and reveal contradictions between the realities …
Workfare in Toronto: More of the Same
This paper uses a recent survey of welfare leavers in Toronto to examine Workfare, a uniquely American initiative introduced into Canada, with its different welfare state history and traditions. When classic American workfare was imported by an enthusiastic government in Ontario, its application led to employment outcomes remarkably similar to those in the US (reduced caseloads, insecure and contingent employment, high recidivism). Yet, Canada's …
Rituals of Degradation: Administration as Policy in the Ontario Works Programme
After the election of a neo-liberal provincial government in 1995, Ontario was at the forefront of work-based welfare reform in Canada. Many of the sweeping reforms carried out under the banner of the “Common Sense Revolution” received widespread coverage: for example, reductions in welfare rates, the introduction of the Ontario Works programme, the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy for so-called welfare fraud, and changes to the rules relating…
Welfare to What? After Workfare in Toronto
An employment survey among people in Toronto who left Ontario Works — a classic “work‐first” regime — shows clear secondary labour market status. Most interventions typical of work‐first programmes did not have a positive effect on job quality: contrary to the “stepping stones” theory that poor initial jobs lead to better jobs, those who changed jobs after leaving assistance experienced poorer job quality. A shift in orientation to “sustainable e…
Exploring the Local Implementation of Ontario Works
Similarly, Ernie Lightman, Dean Herd, and Andrew Mitchell argue that the role of the federal government has been redefined rather than removed from welfare policy. While the decentralization of the Canada Health and Social Transfer resulted in the Ontario government's further downloading of responsibilities to the municipalities, the policy framework is still established by the federal government
Work First’ and Immigrants in Toronto
This paper examines the experiences of immigrants in Toronto as they pass through, and leave, Ontario Works (OW), a ‘Work First’ approach to social assistance that prioritizes rapid labour force attachment. We examine the Ontario Works activities of immigrants, compared to native born Canadians, and their respective post-OW job characteristics. We find that immigrants experience a significant relative wage disadvantage after participation, and su…
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:…
Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario
Over recent decades welfare dependency has played a powerful role in defining the welfare “problem” and in passing appropriate “solutions.” One result has been the proliferation of short-term, low-cost employment programs and training programs that have emerged as critical sites for challenging and reforming the attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients. By exploring work-readiness programs in four communities in Ontario, Canada, we provide i…
Cycling Off and On Welfare in Canada
Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been replaced with 'active' labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries, Canada embraced this shift, with its emphasis on the 'shortest route' to paid employment.There has been little research on the outcomes of these dramatic changes in Canada, especially longer term. This article explores the post-welfare labour market experiences of pe…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Welfare (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Work (physics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works)