SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Maynard Keynes, Economic Citizenship, Nuclear Family

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3130
• Professor: Jan Kainer

Document Summary

Last week: 2nd world war and women"s position. Today: post-war reconstruction; focus on development of the welfare state and political action around consumer activism and sense of entitlement that women feel they should have in part because of their contributions during the war. Goal to achieve peace and prosperity; ordered economy (trade rules) Welfare state aimed to promote stability; full employment; consumption; social supports (social wage) such as healthcare; pensions; accessible education. Important for workers; development of economic citizenship and the development of economic welfare entitlements that had not been put in place before. Welfare strategies implemented throughout europe, canada, australia, etc. General perception that free market/laissez faire economics had contributed to chaos and disorder and economic instability; need to put in place institutional structures to maintain peace among nations (people don"t want this to happen again) General agreement on tariffs and trade (gatt) agreement that established mechanisms to manage trade at the international level.