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Understanding the Legacy of the U.S. Welfare State: A Historical Perspective

Dive into the historical roots of the U.S. welfare system, examining key policies and societal shifts that shaped its development. Join our social club's presentation on the legacy of social policy strategies. Explore the origins of the welfare state, its impact on society, and the evolution of social welfare problems. Discover the importance of notable individuals and themes from history in shaping today's policies. Uncover the historical significance of social welfare responses to economic changes and industrialization. Engage in thought-provoking discussions on the past and present welfare state dynamics.

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Understanding the Legacy of the U.S. Welfare State: A Historical Perspective

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  1. Announce Soc Club

  2. Today’s Agenda • Review drafts of Lab 1 instructions • Sign Ups for History Minute -Jansson Text history Presentation (today I will begin our history journey) –history doesn’t repeat itself but it sure does rhyme-Mark Twain • The Legacy of the Welfare State • Approaches and Aspects of Social Policy Strategy

  3. Policy History Presentation • Objectives: • Historically Situate Era • In relation to earlier and later periods • Identify Social Welfare Problems • What are the causes and manifestations • Identify Welfare Policy • Both direction and substance • Identify and Discuss Out-groups • Questions p.23 Jansson • Identify Notable Individuals • Explain why they are notable, use outside sources. • Discuss Significance of themes for today. • Are the same issues being faced... Are the same policies in place

  4. -The Legacy of the Welfare State (Chapter 2)- Fashioning a New Society in the Wilderness (Chapter 3)

  5. The Legacy of The Welfare State A Creation Story

  6. The Legacy of the U.S. Welfare State • How Did it Come To Be? • This is necessary to understanding today’s structures, we will give serious consideration to this on Group presentation Days. (Jansson History Days) • One Word Description of its historical legacy: • Reluctant • the Jansson text illustrates this point well: sociologically and thoroughly • Video Clip 2 min- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J05DL2hdVwA&feature=related

  7. Notice who you pay taxes to and who re-distributes it?

  8. These are taxes to yourself – to pay for your personal insurance http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/15/your-taxpayer-receipt

  9. SCHIP Prescriptions for seniors FDA CDC UI Food Stamps HUD EITC SSI As we will discuss, federal employees and railroad employees don’t participate in social security. “Welfare” Public School College Loans One Stop Centers VESID http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/15/your-taxpayer-receipt

  10. It is the Federal Government, but it wasn’t always that way….. • How did it come to be this way?...

  11. Understanding Where Colonists Came From • Poverty in 1500’s England • Noblesse Oblige • Catholics: tradition of sharing wealth • Protestants: giving as a moral duty • Most charity in 1600’s and earlier from private philanthropies and religious institutions http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/trading/world4.htm l

  12. Inheriting European Policies • Elizabethan Poor Law Act of 1601 • England consolidated laws assigning welfare roles to local parishes • when parishes can’t meet need, counties required to assume responsibility • Gvt thus becomes chief enforcer of poor relief, supplanting the Church of England • (Source: Macionis 8th ed. 2001:11) http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/trading/world4.htm l Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Queen of England and Ireland. Two Forms Of Aid…

  13. Outdoor relief: aid to persons in their homes, cash or in-kind http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v035/35.3mcintosh.html

  14. Indoor relief: • aid to persons on condition of being in institutions, • almshouses/poorhouses/workhouses or required to be indentured servants or apprentices much more punitive http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v035/35.3mcintosh.html

  15. Depiction of 1837 Poor Laws Workhouse http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot08/snapshot8.htm

  16. Onondaga County’s Poor House – Now Part of OCC

  17. Onondaga County’s Poor House – Now Part of OCC

  18. Economic Change Prompts WS Change • (Source: Macionis 8th ed. 2001:11) • Hunter Gatherer --> Agrarian --> Industrialization • Urbanization • loss of family/local community economic support. • workers consequently exposed to a variety of hazards • illness • unemployment or injury on the job • Also extremes of life phases (i.e. before and after market employment) need caregiving • Childhood and old age • (Source: Macionis 8th ed. 2001:11)

  19. Economic Change Prompts WS Change • (Source: Macionis 8th ed. 2001:11) • These problems (work hazards & ages of non-productivity and need for care): • previously perceived as family and community responsibilities. • require protections as substitutes for the family/community goods and services available in simpler times. • Historically varied attempts to satisfy these new needs. • (Source: Macionis 8th ed. 2001:11)

  20. Varying Responses to Modernization’s Social Welfare Needs Trade unions to protect members by winning benefits through collective bargaining Private Charity Foundationsand Benevolent Societies Mutual Benefit Societies to protect members thru insurance plans Traditional American individualism and self- Reliance Government action, including swps, in response to popular demand URBANIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION MODERNIZATION • Source: Katz MSU

  21. http://www.fathermcgivney.org/mcg/index.cfm Founded 1882 Back http://www.kofc.org/about/history/founder/index.cfm

  22. Back • Video Clip St. Vincent DePaul Angela’s Ashes 2min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLpf1XDNko http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145653/

  23. Progressive Era Notice Outgroups: Who are they? How do these different groups interact and where is social welfare present in this excerpt from “Gangs of New York”? 1846/62 9 min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idp7fLSo-nE Boy released from Hellgate-through “ I would shoot each one of them before setting foot on soil” Multiple Race/Ethnic Groups and Different Economy- some of many reasons for differences between England and US

  24. Progressive Era Policy Changes Over Time

  25. Triangular Passage Source: http://www.juneteenth.com/mp2.htm

  26. Slave Shipshttp://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/immigration/laws.htm

  27. Slave Trade • Triangular trade system - named because the ships embarked from European ports, stopped in Africa to gather the captives, after which they set out for the New World to deliver their human cargo, and then returned to the port of origin. (like a triangle) • The Middle Passage was that leg of the slave triangle that brought the human cargo from West Africa to North America, South America, and the Caribbean.

  28. Fashioning a New Society in the Wilderness Chapter 3

  29. Now that We’ve established that the Colonists were going to be different, and that they needed to adjust to industrialization, the question was how:The Most Eventful Debate is part of the Federalist Papers..

  30. http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/ http://www.hamiltonlives.com/ Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton The Constitution • The Federalist Papers • Strong Executive Branch • Centralized Gvt • Efficient • Elitist • Strong People • Decentralized • Egalitarian • Democratic Video: Alexander Hamilton takes Jefferson to school 4min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notJuFGXQ9w&feature=related

  31. Who Won? • Washington Usually Sided with Hamilton • 1800, Jefferson narrowly defeated Adams for president • Jefferson served 2 terms • With few exceptions all 19th century presidents (1800’s) subscribed to Jefferson’s view of limited government. • ** Strong defense of the federal government’s role in social welfare is relatively recent in America’s history. • If Hamilton and the Federalists had dominated, we might have a very different welfare system, federal centralization might have occurred much earlier than the new deal.

  32. What Happened to Hamilton? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/ Got Milk Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSsswr6z9Y http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande17.html

  33. This trickled through the following periods… • Explains why Federal Social Security and Means Tested wasn’t enacted until 1935. • Currently moving to reverse this trend, from federal back to the states, will see this with TANF. 1900-2000 http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  34. Beyond here FYI

  35. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  36. Progressive Era Policy Changes Over Time

  37. Progressive Era Policy Changes Over Time

  38. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  39. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  40. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  41. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  42. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  43. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  44. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  45. Starobin • Nanny State= • social justice concern • Daddy State= • public order concern • Minimal State= • do as little as possible.

  46. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/century.pdf

  47. Quadagno Quadagno Presidential Address

  48. The following slides are for your interest only, not part of class notes.

  49. Benjamin Rush • Philadelphia Physician • Committee of Inspection and Observation • to implement measures passed at the Continental Congress 1774 • advocated need to develop public education system • advocated temperance, lead to American Temperance Movement • Crusade Against Slavery

  50. Additional Information, FYI

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