[SOWK 1000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (68 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 1000
• Professor: Alexandra Wright

Document Summary

It used to be pure and holy to be poor. The enclosure movement: people of wealth could take away common lands and own the land and exploit the land. It was necessary to keep wages low to ensure people stayed poor. The emerging liberal state: collection of rich and powerful men who controlled the emerging commercial interests in england; needed a way to make the states work in their interest. The wage workers (vast majority of the population) couldn"t vote. Working class men eventually received the right to vote. The working people could now have their own political party. The working class aided in the suffragette movement (not dependent on men) and women"s rights. We begin to see the notion that the state plays a role in accounting for the risks of the industrial life. Laissez-faire: government should have a little role in helping people.