Social Welfare lecture 2

• Social Welfare history post 1970s

  Neoliberalism was a response to slowing economy and crisis. Globalization led to a shift in labour markets
• Social Welfare history in the 1970s

  slowing of economy after post-war regrowth
• After WWII

  Golden Age of social welfare with expansion of programs
• Industrialization

  Time for social change in. Changes in role of family. First notions of state responsibility for welfare
• Confederation

  nation-building project of colonialism leads to genocide of Indigenous Peoples
• Origins of Organized, State Welfare

  1600s. beginning of poor laws, private charities, organized religious poverty relief
• Benevolent

  well meaning
• Residual


  like a net that catches you
• Marsh Report


  report on social security for Canada. Need for comprehensive and universal social welfare programs
• Beveridge Reports


  postwar security for Britain. Comprehensive health insurance and income security
• Social and Employment Services Strategy

  make available employment assistance services such as rehab
• Income Support and Supplement strategy

  focused on meeting inadequacies of income through a guaranteed income for the working poor
• Social Insurance Strategy


  1st line of defence against loss of income
• Community Employment Strategy

  Focused on improving both job skills + labour market for people with difficulty finding or keeping jobs
• Canada Assistance Plan

  Assistance possible for the working poor
• Canada Pension Plan


  wide coverage and advanced concept of social minimum
• Child Tax Benefit


  means-tested supplement to the family allowance for low-income and middle-income families
• Family Allowance Act

  goal was to maintain purchasing power
• Unemployment Insurance Act


  contribution-based unemployment insurance program
• Old Age Pension Act

  Provision of a minimum income program
• Mothers Allowance


  Aid women who were raising children alone without adequate income
• Workers Compensation


  provide both shot and long-term financial support to injured workers and their families
• House of Industry

  provided lodging to the needy + assisted abandoned or orphaned children
• Workhouse

  provided indoor relief
• Less Eligibility

  minimum was lower than the minimum wage that day labours received
• Undeserving Poor

  deemed able to work but do not do so. State has no responsibility
• Deserving Poor

  unable to work, fit for work and willing to take any job offer. State has limited responsibility
• Elizabeth Poor Law


  basis of social welfare system