Lorna R. Marsden

Power within a Profession Medicine in Ontario

The intrusion of a new group into the power relationships within an occupation shifts the bases upon which segments of an occupational group may build their influence. In the case of doctors in Ontario, the advent of a universal health insurance scheme has brought with it greater control on the part of government over the relationships between doctors and patients. Using Johnsons typology of professional-client relationships, this paper examines the structural supports for increasing power of doctors who teach and research in comparison to community practitioners in Ontario. The implications of such a shift for some aspects of health delivery are examined, as examples of a more general pattern of behavior occurring with greater government control over professional practice.

The migrant wife: The worst of all worlds

This study reanalyses data on migrants to Alberta, collected by Statistics Canada in a 1980 Labour Force Survey. The findings indicate that migrant men are gainers and migrant women, particularly migrant wives are the losers from such movement, even during a period of relative economic prosperity in the Province. Womens occupational status tends to improve with time spent in the new labour force. However there is a failure to return to occupational statuses enjoyed before the move. This means, first, that male and female workers are more sex-differentiated after the move than before it; second, that migrant women, especially wives, enjoy fewer occupational returns on their educational investment than migrant men; third, that the balance of economic contribution, and possibly therefore influence, within a migrant household is shifted towards greater male dominance by the move.It is to be emphasized that each of these findings is to be regarded as tentative pending the completion of further analyses on this and three related data sets. In particular the analysis of household level data will be critical in assessing any hypotheses about family power before and after the move.

Taking Liberties, National Barriers to the Free Flow of Ideas.

Introduction Guardians at the Gate: The McCarran-Walter Act and the Exclusion of Controversial Foreigners The Border as Barrier: Federal Restrictions on the Freedom of Movement Whats in a Word: The Foreign Agents Registration Act and Political Propaganda Censored Screens: Why Some Films Are Not Certified for Export The Secrecy Habit Is Hard to Kick: The Export Control Laws and Scientific Exchange Conclusion Bibliography Index

The Relationship between the Labor Force Employment of Women and the Changing Social Organization in Canada

In the generation of Canadians born about 1950, quite new patterns of adult life are being experienced, especially by adult women. During the past 30 years, Canada has gone through a period of unprecedented economic expansion and growth, and at the same time the patterns of life have undergone a number of changes such that women now in young adulthood (ages 20 to 35) cannot find an accurate model of adult experience in the lives of their mothers. Women who reached maturity during the early 1970s are part of a cohort which has smaller families and a higher level of education than their mothers. After 1959, for example, the average family size (total fertility rate) decreased from 3.9 to 1.8. Further, the entire age distribution of the Canadian population shifted toward older age groups and the proportion of families with children under the age of 6 dropped from 61% in 1951 to 43% in 1971.1 There also was an increase in the number of two-earner families, one of the major features differentiating economic sufficiency from insufficiency among many households.2