SOCIOL 2R03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Robert La Follette, Hooverville, Health Insurance Mandate
9 Dec 2013
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Chapter 11 reversing the race to the bottom (textbook: p. 259-288) The challenge of the margins: antipoverty programs (p. 260): Deserving poor = widows and orphans in ancient times. Muslim, jewish and confucian ethical systems all call on good rulers to defend the poor and gives gifts of charity. First society to confront these problems was industrial britain (william. John wesley: drunkenness, idleness, and sin were at the root of poverty but poor who were willing to change their ways needed to be given a second chance. Progressive era politicians such as fighting bob la follette of wisconsin and. Roosevelt of new york promised poor farmers a square deal = changes in taxes helped low-income workers. Opinion since colonial times has been that poverty is the result of personal feelings, so gvnt involvement to help the poor is unnecessary and unwise. Great depression of the 1930s=attitudes towards helping the poor changed.
