Chapter 2 Flashcards
Canada assistance plan CAP
Federal, cosy sharing arrangement with the provinces 1966. Brought together a range if cost shared income security, social services,education, and health programs into one system
-included national standards
Beveridge Report
Britain 1943 response established the baseline for the rapid expansion of social welfare
Capitalism
An economic and social system based on a monopoly of the ownership of capital rather than the ownership of land,as in the case of feudalism. Ownership of or access to capital provided industrialists with the basis for employing workers at a wage.
Cooperative commonwealth federation CCF
Political party founded in 1932 in Calgary Alberta. By socialist agrarian cooperative and labour groups. 1944 with it’s provincial victory in Saskatchewan it became the first so ail democratic government government in North America.
-was replaced by the NDP in 2011 became main federal opposition party
Deserving poor
Those not physically able to work
Undeserving poor
Those physically able to work - forced to work by law
Elizabethan Poor Laws
Foundation if modern welfare states UK CAN US
- 1601, compulsory local levies and required work for able bodied poor
- institutional relief provided by poor or workhouses
- 1834 amendments pauperism was rooted in an unwillingness to work rather than inadequate employment opportunities and the relief provided to the poor had to be set at a level below that of the poorest labourer
Great Depression
1920s-1930s rise of income security and social services
- perception of poor shifted many unemployed
- no due to individual fault but operation of the economy
- poor as a local family responsibility replaced with idea that the government should be responsible for providing relief for the unemployed
Indoor relief
Provided to able bodied men who were deemed employable. Obligated to live in a workhouse and undertake work duties in order to receive assistance. Limit relief and use work as a form of punishment
Marsh report
Detailed the need for comprehensive and universal social welfare programs
Outdoor relief
Provided to a select category of recipients in their place of residence: the sick, the aged, the disabled, the orphaned, or the widowed/ all groups were seen as deserving of aid. Generally came in kind
Poor law amendment act of 1834
- forbade outdoor relief outside of almshouses for able bodied persons and their families
- aimed to dramatically cut relief rates
- aimed to tighten administrative rules and clean up what it saw as abuses of the system
Principe of less eligibility
The amount if assistance has to be less than that of the lowest paying job.
- able bodied paupers condition should be less eligible/ desirable/ favourable than the condition of the independent labourer=stigmatize relief
Statue of labourers
1351 directed against the rise in prices and wages
Welfare state consensus
Economic growth and social programs could work in tandem and the redistribution of wealth that socialists proposed could be avoided by simply growing the economic pie
- bottom achieve more but not at the expense of the wealthy
- help industry increase overall wealth and then insure that the tendency of unregulated markets to create ever greater maldistribution of wealth was checked by government programs
