Public policy and social reproduction : Politique publique et reproduction sociale : tenir compte des rapports sociaux entre les sexes lorsqu'il est question du capital social

Specialists in the field anonymously review each paper and provide comments on: • The accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information presented; • The extent to which the methodology used and the data collected support the analysis and recommendations; • The original contribution the report would make to existing work on this subject, and its usefulness to equality-seeking organizations, [...] It explores the outcomes of applying a social capital lens to child care and parental leave policies, and considers the potential for a social economy model as a way to operationalize the concept of social capital. [...] The legacy of neo-liberalism as the economic and social policy paradigm of choice has resulted in a relatively denuded Canadian welfare state and a significant reduction in policy tools available to governments to manage and redress inequalities in income and opportunity.10 The embracing on the part of rather conservative economists of the concept social capital suggests that, on the one hand, the [...] The social reproduction literature considers the work involved in the daily and intergenerational reproduction of people and their labour power as central to the functioning of the economy and society (see Picchio 1992, 2003). [...] Because it is macro in orientation, it moves social capital out of micro case studies and out of a focus on the “local” to consider the connections among relationships at the household level and the functioning of capitalist economies in the 21st century.