Books
Aux origines sociales de l'État-providence: familles québécoises
et politiques sociales touchant les enfants entre 1940 et 1950, Montreal,
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1998.
| Translation : The Social Origins of the Welfare State Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955. Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, October 2006. Translation by Nicola Danby. |
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Chapters in
Edited Books
"Family Allowances and Family Autonomy: Québec 1945-1955",
in Bettina Bradbury, editor, Canadian Family History: Selected Readings,
Toronto, Copp Clark, 1992, pp. 401-437. Reprinted in Chad Gaffield,
editor, Constructing Modern Canada: Readings in Post-Confederation
History, Copp Clark, 1994, p. 396-432.
"Reconstruction
Politics, the Canadian Welfare State and the Ambiguity of Children's
Rights, 1940-1950", in Greg Donaghy, editor, Uncertain Horizons.
Canadians and their World in 1945, Ottawa, 1996, pp. 261-283. Reprinted
in Ed Montigny and Lori Chambers, editors, Family Matters: Papers
in Post-Confederation Family History, Toronto, Canadian Scholars'
Press, 1998, p. 135-156. [Text
Online]
"The Cold
War, Canada, and the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the
Child", in Greg Donaghy, editor, Canada and the Early Cold War.
1943-1957, Ottawa, Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, 1998, p. 183-214. [Text
Online]
"The Changing
and Emerging Role of the State in Quebec From 1945 to 1970",
in Bob Hesketh, editor, Canada: Confederation to Present, CD-Rom textbook,
Chinook Publications, 2001.
"Peace, War and
the Popularity of Children's rights in Public Opinion, 1919-1959:
The League of Nations, the United Nations and the save the Children
International Union", in James Marten ed., Children and War. An Anthology,
New York University Press, 2002, p.184 -199.
“The Transnational Movements for Children’s Rights and the Canadian Political Culture: A History”, in Janet Miron, ed. The History of Human Rights in Post-Confederation Canada, Canadian Scholars' Press Inc, 2009, pp. 157-181.
“Birth Registration and the Promotion of Children’s Rights in the Interwar Years: The Save the Children International Union’s Conference on the African Child, and Herbert Hoover’s American Child Health Association”, Registration and Recognition. Documenting the Person in World History, Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter (eds), Proceedings of the British Academy , 182, 2012, pp. 440-473.
“International Child Saving”, in The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World, Paula Fass, ed. Fall 2012.
Articles in
Refereed Journals
"Les parents québécois et l'État canadien
au début du programme des allocations familiales: 1945-1955",
Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, Vol. 40, No.
1 (Summer 1986), p. 73-95.
"Le recul du travail des enfants au Québec entre 1940
et 1960: une explication des conflits entre les familles pauvres et
l'État providence", Labour/Le Travail, No. 24 (Autumn
1989), pp. 91-129. Reprinted and translated as "The Decline of
Child Labour in Quebec, 1940-1960: Conflict Between Poor Families
and the State", in Tina Loo and Lorna McLean, editor, Historical
Perspectives on Law and Society in Canada, Copp Clark, 1994, p. 254-288.
"Nationalisme et politiques sociales au Québec depuis
1867. Un siècle de rendez-vous manqués entre l'État,
l'Église et les familles", British Journal of Canadian
Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, (November 1994), p. 301-347.
"Les familles québécoises et l'obligation scolaire,
1943-1960", Lien social et politique, Revue internationale d'action
communautaire, 35(Spring 1996), p. 13-22.
"The Language of Children's Rights, the Formation of the Welfare State and the Democratic Experience of Poor Families, Quebec, 1940-1955", Canadian Historical Review, 78, 3 (Fall 1997), 409-441. Repinted in Michael D. Behiels and Matthew Hayday, eds. Contemporayr Quebec. Selected Readings and Commentaries. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queenès, 2011, pp. 49-77.
"The Formation of Childhood as an Object of International Relations:
the Child Welfare Committee and the Declaration of Children's Rights
of the League of Nations", International Journal of Children's
Rights , 7, 2 (1999), p. 103-147.
'Tensions ethniques et religieuses autour des droits universels des
enfants: la participation canadienne au Comité de protection
de l'enfance de la Société des Nations, entre 1924 et
1945', special issue on childhood of Lien social et politique, Revue
internationale d'action communautaire , Autumn 2000, p. 101-123.
Children's Right and Imperial Political Cultures: missionary and
humanitarian Contributions to the Conference on the African Child of 1931",
International Journal of Children's Rights, 12 (2004), p. 273-318.
"Genèse et élaboration du système de protection sociale au Québec", RECMA,
Revue internationale de l'économie sociale (Paris), 83, 294 (November 2004),
p. 74-89.
“The Rights of African Children, the Save the Children Fund and Public Opinion in Europe and Ethiopia: The Centre of Child Welfare of Addis Ababa, Spring 1936”, in Siegbert Uhlig, ed. Proceedings of the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20-25 2003, Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2006, pp. 296-306. [Text
Online]
"Dimensions transnationales et locales de l`histoire des droits des enfants. La Société des Nations et les cultures politiqes canadiennes", Genèses, 71 (June 2008), 47-63. Special issue on "Actions sociales et transnationales".
"Children's Rights and Children's Actions in International Relief and Domestic Welfare: The Work of Herbert Hoover between 1914 and 1950", Journal of the History of Children and Youth, Volume 1, Issue 3 (Fall 2008) 351-388.
Encyclopediaes and Dictionaries Entries
“Red Cross”, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol. 4, Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2011.
"Save the Children International Union” and “Children’s Rights”, in Akira Iriye & Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds. The Dictionary of Transnational History
a Palgrave Publication , Macmillan publication, 2009.
Other Publications
"Report of the Discussant", Models of the Welfare State Formation in the Global Context", Specialised Theme Session 21, in Martyn Lyons, ed. History in Global Perspective: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney 2005, Sydney: Faculty of arts aand Social Sciences, 2006. CD-ROM.
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