Social Work 1022A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: White Paper, Corporate Welfare, Baby Boomers

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Andrew Mantulak

Document Summary

Private charities an early approach to social work that involved private individuals and religious organizations that provided material relief to the poor. Rise of the charity movement, epitomized by the charity organisation society (cos: roots of casework &notion of helping people adjust to their environment can be traced to the cos. Response to urban poverty in canada was the result of 2 types of religious motivation: native, protestant &missionary. Concern of pious &well-established people for those whom they perceived as strangers, outliers &unchurched o. Form of mutual aid &solidarity in a threatening environment. Early charity organization: the roots of social work. The poor laws in england required local parishes to provide relief to the deserving poor. Poor relief the poor laws signaled an important progression from private charity to public welfare, where the care &supervision of the poor was embodied in law &the responsibility each town, village or hamlet.