SOCWK120R Lecture 3: Lecture 3 I listened to the lecture and took down as much as I could and what I felt was important to know.
16 Oct 2011
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Lecture 3 history of social work and social welfare. Begin with the british system (england) 5th -14th century. At this point every necessity was all met within the confined area. Downside is lack of freedom, people could not move/change occupation. 13 hundreds plague that hit knocked out 2/3 population. Govn"t passed legislation to enforce the number of labourers (farmers) 1349 law set saying person must accept employment from anyone with any wade (forbidden to leave the area to seek new work) Other members of population were not aloud to give aid (food/money) to people who could be working. Catholic church role changed- when king henry 8th had disagreement with church of rome he closed many of the monasteries/took lots of the wealth. Result of these, the poor laws (1601- elizabeth the 1st) were a series of acts by govn"t to try and fix the need of aid (of poor ppl) Principles that came out of poor laws: (1998)
