SOCWORK 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Feudalism, Living Wage
6 Feb 2017
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Many think the history is a progressive one. Assumed that as we learned more and understood the human condition and its social issues, we would progress and offer adequate methods of assistance to people. It is not linear or progressive history of social welfare development. Some progress, however recently there has been regression. We have a particular societal value of trading labour for money. This particular value has shaped our response to social issues. Most of our responses are focused on how we trade our labour for cash. Paid work is a powerful construct that undermines most social welfare developments. This construct underpins how we understand our social welfare system through the ages. In the time between feudalism and the insutrial revolution england went through a series of policies (governmental articulations) around the problem of poverty and beginning. Feudalism is land owners and peasants (have a semi-simbiotic relationships)
