SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corporatism, Social Stigma, Essential Logic

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 302
• Professor: Rose Ann Torres

Document Summary

Lecture 8: global capitalism and the canadian welfare state: impacts of economic integration, fiscal policy, and market liberalism on social policy. Protecting people inside and outside the labour force. Social welfare values are asserted over economics ones. Economic policy in terms of its goals, which include these: To alter how society was structure and how market-generated incomes were distributed. De(cid:271)ate a(cid:271)out the (cid:862)crisis of the welfare tate(cid:863) Focus on the interventions and their consequences for: Market forces are both defining and delimiting welfare states. Economic values are prevailing over community ones. Shift in support for welfare regimes from-social democratic (socialist) to-liberal (residual), and more to-conservative (corporatist) model of welfare. Social policy = drain on economic policy. Nature of policies during the era of globalization. Focus on the essential logic of the capitalist labour, threat, at least theoretical to the development of a strong economy. Tensions between social and economic policy = deepened and aggravated.