SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Workhouse

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1AA3
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Moral model- practices of helping based on personal characteristics in the ota of moral reform. Influence in how we think about and deliver help through a discourse of The poor law of 1601- developed in britain where local parishes were required to provide relief to the poor if the family or community could not. 3 levels of response: family first . outdoor relief (material goods, coats, food, indoor relief (poor houses. 1. sick and elderly 2. abled bodied people to work. ) The charity model emerges from ideas surrounding morality no analysis of social structures poverty as a flaw in a persons character (you"re fault) People with disabilities: single mothers, issues with substance use . W/ criminal backgrounds: elderly begin to see how helpers and the helped are being socially constructed. 1832-1834: moral reform era: start of moral reform era (19th and early 20th century, provinces and territories had informally been following the elizabethan poor laws, industrialization.