Case Study: Immigrant Issues Case Study: Immigrant Issues As a social worker, your are expected to look at situations in three different prospective individual, systems and structural. In the case study of immigrant issues, a family in hopes of a bright new further in Canada gets hit with a stressful reality. Each individual in the family , all experienced their own difficulties of the life in Canad a.Mr. and Mrs Balbir Singh immigrated to Canada from their home land of northern India. They lived in Canada for six months and was able to move to Canada because Balbir's brother sponsored them.
In “The Craftmen’s Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, The Early Years”, authors Craig Heron and Steve Penfold address entirely on the making of Labour Day and what it changed into as the years progressed. Craig Heron and Steve Penfold begin with a brief summary of when Labour Day became an official statutory holiday in Canada on September 3rd, 1894 after five years of Canadian labour leaders lobbying to win the support support of both panels of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital in 1889. This day consisted of barbers, firefighters, butchers and other professions recognized in the working class. The holiday was originated based on two demands “one for public recognition of organized labour and its important role, and another for release from the pressures of work in capitalist industry” (Heron and Penfold 357). It is explained that the event was a public program organized solely by workers with no additional help.
While workers fought for fair treatment and job security, the employers wanted the freedom to become more efficient and profitable. But when one threatens they others goal naturally the other will resist. In a dictatorship this would be handled favoring one party or the other (normally the employers) every time, but in a democracy there was a need for unions to do collective bargaining and at times when demands are not met , strike. <br>
Progressive Reformers History when given the proper perspective is a lot like a diamond in the rough; it is an invaluable resource to those who take the time to acquire it. This thought can be reflected in the work of literature ‘Workers’ Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century’ by David Montgomery and James W. Fraser work ‘A History of Hope’. The thought really is a reoccurring theme in both of these text, that thought being ‘As a team we can accomplish the dream’. In both passages the employers are oppressing the working classes but by the strength of a dream in time we can see a team being formed. In chapter seven of A History of Hope a woman who went by the name of Mother Jones prove to be a very powerful example of someone who thoroughly believed and lived by the above quote.
Matthew Davis History 1378 Mrs. Frances Joseph (Marcinkiewicz) April 19, 2013 Immigration Changes Immigration has been around since the 18th and 19th centuries and society has had many different social views on that topic alone, but even in today’s society we still deal with immigration. Attempting to have a fresh start can be overwhelming alone, but being discriminated against because your different can also add to that burden as many immigrants experienced. Immigration can be considered a Godsend. It’s a big reason that a lot of industries flourished and became successful. Companies were built on the backs of hard working immigrants who were paid low wages and worked in dangerous environments.
This class played a huge role in the economic activities and ensured equal distribution of wealth in the Canadian society .Similarly, the working class history of Canada has been faced with huge struggle in the past. In 1965, little historical attention had been focussed on the workers leading to major class developments in the 1970s were labour extremism and Winnipeg strike were undertaken to fight for workers justice. In late 1990s, an increased number of graduates and historians designed new directions which revolutionised the workforce in the history of Canada (Bolger
------------------------------------------------- Labor Unions Economic Effects Johana Microeconomics Labor Unions Economic Effects Labor unions are organizations of workers formed to protect their rights and promote their common interests. Their endeavors to raise wage rates are mostly focused on the labor market supply. Labor unions, for the most part, drive up unemployment, contribute to offshoring, outsourcing, and make firms less competitive. Therefore, labor unions, when successful in raising high wages, negatively affect the economy of households and business firms within the U.S., and American global competitiveness. A Craft Union Model or Exclusive Union restricts the number of workers that can join it, based mostly on
Most will experience a transition period and during this period, they have to establish their own self-sufficiency within the new social structure. Fortunately for them, the Canadian government provides some benefits for the new comers so that they can quickly settle down in the new environment. For this paper, I will look at this topic on immigration in Canada through a sociological perspective, using the concepts of culture shock, assimilation and discrimination and the structural functional theory. Concept 1: Culture shock. Culture shock is a condition that affects people who travel to another country that is remarkably different from their own culture back home.
The concept of a sweatshop has been around since the early 1800’s. Throughout history the image that comes to mind from the term sweatshop has been one of low-paying, swarming, and dirty workplaces that are owned by large corporations to manufacture goods at a low cost. A sweater, or manager, directed the workers in clothing production, which often rose to as many as 100 workers or more. These workplaces attracted the poor-especially immigrants- in all types of cities, including London and New York. Sweatshops still exist and are of much greater abundance than ever, but are mostly located in other continents such as Africa and Asia, and range from electronics assembly to shoes manufacturing.
Karl Marx Marx was interested in the role economic forces played in the functioning of society. Karl Marx lived most of his adult life in England, during this time he saw the growth in factories and industrial production. He was surprised by the inequalities that resulted because of this development, even though more goods were produced than ever before. Marx saw the rise of an economic system whereby, more goods and services where produced to sell to a wide range of consumers, but by so doing, this system divided society into two main classes; the bourgeoisie, who were the factory owners, and the proletariat, who provided the labour force in the factories (Giddens 2001:11). According to Marx, this economic system which he termed capitalism created an exploitative relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, since the proletariat had little or no control over the distribution of profits and the labour which they provided (Giddens 2001:12).