Introduction
Social policy is a subject of inclusivity with a bid to offer solutions to social life challenges. This paper discusses the social-economic and political challenges, which are further classified based on the economic state, political state, or the general social structure. Different levels of social challenges will require a different set of solutions. The industrial revolution of the 18th century caused both economic and social welfare policy challenges (Hendren & Sprung-Keyser, 2020). The transformation steps could solve social-economic-related problems by resolving the historical, and financial aspects, making them better elements for the prospect.
Industrial Revolution
The historical aspect of social welfare regarding economic elements plays an essential role in creating a base for establishing a solution for the economic phenomenon that could arise due to historical economic events. The industrial revolution being a pivotal solution to most economic challenges, has resulted in social side effects. From the industrial revolution angle, social welfare policies that affect financial aspects also involve social matters equally. Thus, solutions are likely to change based on the environment and time since economic factors keep changing a lot (Hendren, & Sprung-Keyser, 2020). Social welfare policy development should integrate economic and social aspects to protect vulnerable groups through social assistance and services in the current social-economic environment.
Effect of the industrial revolution on social welfare policy
Some of the challenges that arise from social welfare policy are majorly economic influences, such as poverty and rise in social classes, resulting in social imbalance. Poverty growth increases among society members who have limited financial ability to access resources. The basic needs are necessary to lead a conventional lifestyle or struggle to meet basic human needs. Simultaneously, the social imbalance is where resources have become unevenly distributed in society. Social gaps develop between those who have access to resources and those who struggle to access resources necessary to improve life quality.
Social imbalance and poverty came from the industrial revolution in the 18th century while improving insufficient economic performance improvement. Thus, the formulation of social welfare had to balance the economic and social effects.
Liberal states had limited ideas on social welfare, which motivated the development of a more negative outcome. Adopting an inclusivity policy was necessary to handle the whole social-economic imbalance issue to counter the adverse effects. The public expects that the government has an obligation toward social welfare and to formulate policies to enable them to meet those social obligations through taxes and other state expenditure policies (Hendren, & Sprung-Keyser, 2020). Despite much critics from the public on the social-economic challenges. State welfare does its best to develop social policies and create a developed society.
Conclusion
This paper provides an analysis of the social welfare policies’ impact. From the above study, the social-economic welfare imbalance created due to attempting to address the social-economic imbalance leads to an increased poverty level. There is a need to develop a balanced policy to promote social welfare and create room for all emerging issues that would affect the economy and society’s growth in a stable social welfare policy that provides solutions that address the general policies’ weaknesses.
Reference
Hendren, N., & Sprung-Keyser, B. (2020). A unified welfare analysis of government Policies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(3), 1209-1318. Web.