HIST 3660 Lecture Notes - Behavioural Sciences, Protestantism, Little Blue Book
5 Dec 2012
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Assistance you could get was temporary if anything. Transients are evidence of how easy it was to be forgotten by the government. Conservative reformers blamed the poor for their plight drank too much, couldn"t work etc. Saw this as a question about individual choice and behaviour. If they asked for charity they had to work for it, forced to do work that was just made smash rocks. Reform the individual rather than reforming the individual. Self reliance and a focus on moral aspects these reformers talked about. Not about changing policies in the war years did we start to see the welfare state. Reforming the inidivudal could not prodouced a reformed society. Power of the state needed for deep and long lasting change. Horrible slums poor sewage systems awful infrastructure. The end of the 19th century montreal largest city. Aims wrote a book emphasized the city below the hill and those on the high terraces.
