Book
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. Winner of the 1998-1999 Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize in Social Sciences (now Canada Prize) of the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities; Honorable Mention Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association, 1999.
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.
Chapters in Books
“Breaking Historical Barriers”, in Jill Campbell-Miller, Greg Donaghy and Stacey Barker (Eds.), Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds. Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order, University of Calgary Press, October 2021, Conclusion.
“Four Keys to Make Sense of Traditions in the Nonprofit Sector in Canada: Historical Contexts”, in Susan Phillips and Bob Wyatt (Eds.), Intersections and Innovations: Change for Canada’s Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector, Edmonton, AB, Canada: Muttart Foundation, 2021. Chapter 3, 16 pages.
“Conclusion”, in Greg Donaghy and David Webster, dir. “A Samaritan State” Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid, 1950–2016, University of Calgary Press, 2019, pp. 333-394.
“The Rise of Coordinated Action for Children in War and Peace: Experts at the League of Nations, 1924–1945”, in D. Rodogno, B. Struck, J. Vogel, eds. Shaping the Transnational Sphere. Transnational networks of experts and organizations (C. 1850–1930), New York, Berghahn Books. chapter 4, 2014, p. 82-107.
“Children’s Rights from Below: Canadian and Transnational Actions, Beliefs, and Discourses, 1900–1989”, in David Goutor and Stephen Heathorn, eds. Taking Liberties. A History of Human Rights in Canada, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 189-212.
“International Child Saving”, in The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World, Paula Fass, ed. Fall 2012, p. 469-489.
“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, p. 440-473.
“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.
“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 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.
“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.
“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.
“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.