Margaret Hillyard Little

Biographic Data

ID821417
NAMEMargaret Hillyard Little
GIVEN NAMESMargaret Hillyard
FAMILY NAMELittle
SIGNATURELITTLE M H
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Unpaid Work and Feminist Alliances across Difference: Three Local Studies of Wages for Housework Organizing in Canada

    Margaret Hillyard Little, Lynne Marks et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2026

    Unpaid Work and Feminist Alliances across Difference: Three Local Studies of Wages for Housework Organizing in Canada. An article from journal Labour / Le Travail (Volume 97, Spring 2026, pp. 9-368), on Érudit.

  • From the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the National Action Committee

    Joan Sangster, Sarah Nickel et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2022Cited by: 2References: 2

    éducation, travail domestique, garde d'enfantsThe roundtable in this issue, "From the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the National Action Committee," marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (nac).In April of 1972, over 500 feminists met in Toronto for the "Strategy for Change" conference sponsored by the National Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women.Some Ad Hoc Committee org…

  • Implicating municipalities in addressing household food insecurity in Canada: A pan-Canadian analysis of news print media coverage

    Open AccessPeter A Collins, Patricia A Collins et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2016References: 18

  • A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990

    Lynne Marks, Margaret Hillyard Little et al.ARTICLEWomen s History Review2016Cited by: 3

    This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…

  • Municipal-level responses to household food insecurity in Canada: A call for critical, evaluative research

    Open AccessPeter A Collins, Patricia A Collins et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2014Cited by: 5References: 16

  • Ontario and British Columbia Welfare Policy: Variants on a Neoliberal Theme

    Margaret Hillyard Little, Margaret Little et al.ARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2010Cited by: 4References: 1

    This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include or exclude their poorer citizens from receiving welfare. By exploring the dramatic changes to welfare in British Columbia and Ontario, we argue that the former follows a “purer” neoli…

  • If I Had a Hammer: Retraining That Really Works

    Shauna Butterwick, Margaret Hillyard LittleARTICLECanadian Public Policy2006Cited by: 1

  • Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad

    Open AccessMargaret Hillyard Little, Margaret LittleARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…2004

    Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad, Maeve Quaid, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp. 244 This book begins with the premise that workfare, properly administered, is good social policy. The author dismisses the moral arguments surrounding this policy: i) that workfare distinguishes the deserving from the undeserving; ii) that workfare is a form of slavery, forcing the poor to work in order to survive; iii) that workfare creat…

  • Poor-Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion

    Margaret Hillyard Little, Margaret Little et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2002Cited by: 9

  • A Litmus Test for Democracy: The Impact of Ontario Welfare Changes on Single Mothers’

    Margaret Hillyard Little, Margaret LittleARTICLEStudies in Political Economy2001Cited by: 10

    One of the real litmus tests for the state of our democracy is to examine how we treat the most marginalized. An increasingly demonized and marginalized group in Canadian society is poor single mothers. This article will study the changes to Ontario welfare policy since the election of Premier Mike Harris and the Progressive Conservatives in 1995

  • He Said, She Said: The Role of Gossip in Determining Single Mothers' Eligibility for Welfare

    Open AccessMargaret Hillyard LittleARTICLEJournal of Policy History1999References: 4

    Gossip has long been one of the most dismissed fotms of communication. Since the 1920s, nonetheless, some social scientists have attempted to understand gossip and its social utility. These scholars (be they anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, linguists, historians, or feminists) have argued that gossip plays a significant role in a number of both premodern and modern communities. However, despite a growing body of work that examines go…

  • Gender and Politics in Contemporary Canada

    Margaret Hillyard Little, Francois-Pierre Gingras et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1997

  • The Blurring of Boundaries: Private and Public Welfare for Single Mothers in Ontario

    Margaret Hillyard Little, Margaret LittleARTICLEStudies in Political Economy1995Cited by: 3

    During the last decade all levels of government have been under tremendous pressure to slash budgets, fire employees and cut programs, most notably in the field of welfare. This has been the result of both attacks from above (through the growing importance of global capital and transnational trade blocks) and from below (through the rise in popularity of social movements working outside the state). As social scientists scramble to analyze these d…

  • Manhunts and Bingo Blabs: The Moral Regulation of Ontario Single Mothers

    Open AccessMargaret Hillyard LittleARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1994Cited by: 7

    Ontario Mothers' Allowance or Family Benefits was one of the first pillars of welfare state legislation in Canada and helped to lay the groundwork for the state's involvement in the moral scrutiny of the poor. This article illustrates that the moral regulation of the poor, often associated with the Victorian era, continues today through the administration of this policy. Government adminis- trators, neighbours, and other welfare recipients are al…