Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Social reproduction and feminist political economy / Kate Bezanson, Meg Luxton -- Feminist political economy in Canada and th e politics of social reproduction / Meg Luxton -- Social reproduction a nd Canadian federalism / Barbara Cameron -- Whose social reproduction? Transnational motherhood and challenges to feminist political economy / Sedef Arat-Koc -- Bargaining for collective responsibility for social reproduction / Alice de Wolff -- Privatization : a strategy for elimina ting pay equity in health care / Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Marcy Cohen -- Crisis tendencies in social reproduction : the case of Ontario's early years plan / Leah F. Vosko -- The neo-liberal state and social reprodu ction : gender and household insecurity in the late 1990s / Kate Bezans on -- Someone to watch over you : gender, class, and social reproductio n / Susan Braedley -- Motherhood as a class act : the many ways in whic h 'intensive mothering' is entangled with social class / Bonnie Fox -- Friends, neighbours, and community : a case study of the role of inform al caregiving in social reproduction / Meg Luxton.