SOWK 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 1: Canadian Space Agency, Fire People, Foreign Corporation
17 Sep 2017
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Social work, social welfare and the global economy: chapter 1 pg 3-27. Social workers had a central role in the development and delivery of social welfare. Derived from the industrialization and urbanization in the late 19th century. Social work stated with charity work and then the responsibilities shifted more and more to the state. Social workers advocate for immediate services and recourses to promote social change. Political and economic changes effect the way social workers do their job and deliver social welfare. We are in a horrible economic time and people are stating to feel the effects of 3 decades of downsizing and cuts to social programs. Economic recession started in 2008 in the us and has spread to europe and is said to be the worst since the great depression in 1929. Increased mobility of capital is moving money from the state to transnational corporations. Transnational organizations now determine the social, economic and political policies of countries.
