Social Work 120

1. Social Work 120 Valerie Southard Section 1 - Spring ‘11 Week 5 2/28/11

2. Collective bargaining is a process of negotiations between employers and the representatives of a unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working conditions. • True • False

3. The American colonists saw Native Americans as worthy people who needed civilizing. The betrayal of the Native Americans by the American government was the result of: • The Native Americans’ refusal to convert to Christianity. • The American settlers’ demand for land. • Competition with Native Americans over the selling of corn and tobacco crops. • The Native Americans over-hunting and depleting the food source early Americans relied upon.

4. Today’s Objectives Describe feudal society; Describe the Enclosure Movement; Describe the effect of the Scientific Revolution on feudal society; Describe the role of the church in social welfare; Describe the impact of black death and witchcraze on society; Describe the impact of the Protestant Reformation on social welfare; Describe social welfare in England during the Tudor period; and Describe the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of capitalism on social welfare.

5. DARK AGES: 400-1200 CE • In Asia Minor, Byzantine Christianity was supplanted by Islam • Charity a pillar of the faith • Great strides in science and scholarship • Women’s rights wiped out • In Europe, a hectic transition to a new kind of civilization • Feudalism • Magna Charta • first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects (the barons) in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. • Women had little status until towards the end of the Dark Ages

6. Feudal Society • Though resisted by peasants, feudalism emerged in exchange for protection and land use • Scientific revolution eventually resulted in a factory system with wage earners • Church • Corrupt and used its power to keep common people from gaining better treatment. • Eventual tenants of social justice and obligation for wealthy to care for the poor. • Private welfare

7. Dissolution of Feudalism Church blamed for supporting beggary and undercutting profits of the elite Cloth making achieved the status of a large-scale commercial industry Black death and the witchcraze

8. Poverty Becomes a Crime • Statute of Laborers – first significant law on a national level aimed at the poor • Aimed to protect the interests of the commercially oriented government • Commercial revolution

9. The Protestant Reformation • Protestant Reformation • Work ethic – Work equated with spirituality • Thrift, frugality, asceticism valued • Women’s place was to serve men • Social Welfare and Work Morality • Poverty became a crime • Identification of poor and needy and organized ways to address the condition

10. The Tudor Period: from 1485 C.E. • Act for Punishment of Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars • Prohibited begging and casual almsgiving • Statute of Artificers • Regulated wages and hours to control labor market • Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 • Legalized and formalized the State’s responsibility for the poor • Defined social welfare as part of the national labor policy

11. Industrial Revolution Beginnings of capitalism tied to cotton textile production (1760) Laissez-faire policy – no interference in business policy by government Industrial revolution

12. Multiple Choice The Statue of Laborers - the first significant law on a national level aimed at the poor - protected ________________. the servants  the wage earner  the classed laborer  the government

13. Multiple Choice During the commercial revolution social welfare ___________________. focused on housing issues for the poor.  became adjunct to labor policy.  became more important than labor policy.  focused on the protection for the poor.

14. Multiple Choice Henry VII responded to the problems of the poor by all of the following except ______________. putting them in the stocks  making them indentured servants  returning them to their place of origin  flogging them

15. Private welfare dissolved during feudal society since overall responsibility for the poor rested on the church and the feudal manor.   True False

16. True or False The Elizabethan Poor Laws legalized and formalized England's responsibility for the poor.  True  False

17. True or False With the emergence of Capitalism. poverty was necessary to the nation's political economy.   True  False

18. Dark to Middle Ages: 400-1200 CE • In Asia Minor, Byzantine Christianity was supplanted by Islam • Charity a pillar of the faith • Great strides in science and scholarship • Women’s rights wiped out • In Europe, a hectic transition to a new kind of civilization • Feudalism • Magna Charta - 1215 • first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects (the barons) in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges; no arbitrary rulings • Women had little status until towards the end of the Middle Ages

19. Question 9 How did the Byzantine and Roman Churches differ in their treatment of women and the poor?

20. Question 2 What was feudalism? What kinds of help for the poor did it offer?

21. Feudal Society • Though resisted by peasants, feudalism emerged in exchange for protection and land use • Church • Corrupt and used its power to keep common people from gaining better treatment. • Eventually, tenants of social justice and obligation for wealthy to care for the poor – noblesse oblige. • Private welfare

22. Question 5 How did the Scientific Revolution affect feudalism? Social welfare?

23. Dissolution of Feudalism Church blamed for supporting beggary and undercutting profits of the elite Cloth making achieved the status of a large-scale commercial industry Black death and the witchcraze

24. Question 5 How did the Scientific Revolution affect feudalism? Social welfare?

25. Question 3 What was the Enclosure Movement, and how did it affect land ownership policies in England? How did it affect employment and poverty?

26. Question 6 How did poverty become a crime?

27. Poverty Becomes a Crime • Statute of Laborers – first significant law on a national level aimed at the poor • Aimed to protect the interests of the commercially oriented government • Commercial revolution

28. Question 1 What was the role of the Christian Church before the Reformation?

29. The Protestant Reformation • Protestant Reformation • Work ethic – Work equated with spirituality • Thrift, frugality, asceticism valued • Women’s place was to serve men • Social Welfare and Work Morality • Poverty became a crime • Identification of poor and needy and organized ways to address the condition

30. The Tudor Period: from 1485 C.E. • Act for Punishment of Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars • Prohibited begging and casual almsgiving • Statute of Artificers • Regulated wages and hours to control labor market

31. Question 4 What were the provisions of the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601, and what is their relationship to public assistance in the United States today?

32. Elizabethan Poor Laws • Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 • Legalized and formalized the State’s responsibility for the poor • Defined social welfare as part of the national labor policy

33. Industrial Revolution Beginnings of capitalism tied to cotton textile production (1760) Laissez-faire policy – no interference in business policy by government Industrial revolution

34. Question 8 In what ways are mercantilism, the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and capitalism intimately related?

35. Multiple Choice The Statue of Laborers - the first significant law on a national level aimed at the poor - protected ________________. the servants  the wage earner  the classed laborer  the government

36. Multiple Choice During the commercial revolution social welfare ___________________. focused on housing issues for the poor.  became adjunct to labor policy.  became more important than labor policy.  focused on the protection for the poor.

37. Multiple Choice Henry VII responded to the problems of the poor by all of the following except ______________. putting them in the stocks  making them indentured servants  returning them to their place of origin  flogging them

38. True or False Private welfare dissolved during feudal society since overall responsibility for the poor rested on the church and the feudal manor. True  False

39. True or False The Elizabethan Poor Laws legalized and formalized England's responsibility for the poor.  True  False

40. True or False With the emergence of Capitalism. poverty was necessary to the nation's political economy.   True  False

41. Social Welfare in America State of the world at the time of the discovery of the New World was the basis for the political economy of the US

42. Indigenous People of America Civilization paralleled Europe

43. European Invasion Exploitive colonization of the New World began with the Europeans. Native Americans mythologized, nearly exterminated French Spanish Dutch English

44. Question 3 What were the differences in approach to life between the European invaders and Native Americans? What were the bases of social welfare among Native American?

45. Question 10 What were the differences in approach to Native American between the Dutch, Spanish, English, and French invaders? What values supported the differences?

46. Work in Early North American • Indentured labor • First kind of labor pool • Intended to work the hard work of the New World

47. Question 5 How did indenture and slavery differ, and how did those differences set patterns for racism based on color?

48. Slavery in America • Profitable to own slaves • With slavery came racism • Laws that explicitly excluded black people from protections • Laws that made it impossible for slaves to gain freedom • Laws that addressed revolt by slaves • Laws that encouraged slave trade • Punishment for interracial marriage

49. Question 4 What were the differences between slavery in North American and slavery in South America?