Social Rights And Human Welfare

Author : Hartley Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317747499

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An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the international human rights and human development agenda. It provides a valuable introduction for students and researchers in social policy and related applied social science, public policy, sociology, socio-legal studies and social development fields. Taking an international perspective, the first part of the book considers how social rights can be understood and critiqued in theory – discussing ideas around citizenship, human needs and human rights, collective responsibility and ethical imperatives. The second part of the book looks at social rights in practice, providing a comparative examination of their development globally, before looking more specifically at rights to livelihood, human services and housing as well as ways in which these rights can be implemented and enforced. The final section re-evaluates prevailing debates about rights-based approaches to poverty alleviation and outlines possible future directions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of social rights in theory and practice. It questions recent developments in social policy. It challenges certain dominant ideas concerning the basis of human rights. It seeks to re-frame our understanding of social rights as the articulation of human needs and presents a radical new 'post-Marshallian' theory of human rights.

Author : Hartley Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317747505

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Social Rights and Human Welfare by Hartley Dean Pdf

An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the international human rights and human development agenda. It provides a valuable introduction for students and researchers in social policy and related applied social science, public policy, sociology, socio-legal studies and social development fields. Taking an international perspective, the first part of the book considers how social rights can be understood and critiqued in theory – discussing ideas around citizenship, human needs and human rights, collective responsibility and ethical imperatives. The second part of the book looks at social rights in practice, providing a comparative examination of their development globally, before looking more specifically at rights to livelihood, human services and housing as well as ways in which these rights can be implemented and enforced. The final section re-evaluates prevailing debates about rights-based approaches to poverty alleviation and outlines possible future directions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of social rights in theory and practice. It questions recent developments in social policy. It challenges certain dominant ideas concerning the basis of human rights. It seeks to re-frame our understanding of social rights as the articulation of human needs and presents a radical new 'post-Marshallian' theory of human rights.

Author : Toomas Kotkas,Kenneth Veitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315524313

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Social Rights in the Welfare State by Toomas Kotkas,Kenneth Veitch Pdf

At a time when the future of the welfare state is the object of heated debate in many European countries, this edited collection explores the relationship between this institution and social rights. Structured around the themes of the politics of social rights, questions of equality and social exclusion/inclusion, and the increasing impact of market imperatives on social policy, the book explores the effect of transformations in the welfare state upon social rights and their underlying rationalities and logics. Written by a group of international scholars, many of the essays discuss a number of urgent and topical issues within social policy, including: the social rights of asylum seekers; the increasing marketization and consumerization of public welfare services; the care of the elderly; and the obligation to work as a condition of access to welfare benefits. International in its scope, and interdisciplinary in its approach, this collection of essays will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of law and socio-legal studies, sociology, social policy, and politics. It will also be of interest to policy makers and all those engaged in the debate over the future of the welfare state and social rights.

Author : Jane Pulkingham
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802096999

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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism by Jane Pulkingham Pdf

J.S. Woodsworth, a founding member and leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (forerunner of the New Democratic Party) and member of Parliament, was a social policy pioneer who promoted human welfare and rights over interests of property and finance. Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism explores the significance of Woodsworth's thoughts and achievements in the area of human rights in the light of current social welfare objectives and practices. Canadians continue to grapple with the question of how to accommodate and reconcile social diversity and difference while articulating a common interest and advancing human rights, both domestically and internationally. The essays in this volume, by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, address such issues as globalization, labour rights and law, the gendered and racialized dimensions of transnational labour, the relationship between human rights, social programs, and social rights, and the emergent cultural politics of difference. Through engagement with longstanding debates on the ideals and provisions for social justice we have come to associate with Woodsworth, the essays consider the present significance of a human rights frame, and examine the historical and contemporary exclusions to polity that occur around gender, ethnicity, class, and race.

Author : McCann, Gerard,Ó hAdhmaill, Féilim
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447349235

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International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development by McCann, Gerard,Ó hAdhmaill, Féilim Pdf

With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs. Including a forward by Albie Sachs, this book presents an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities. It will engage those with an interest in social policy, ethics, politics, international relations, civil society organisations and human rights-based approaches to campaigning and policy development.

Author : Daphne Barak-Erez,Aeyal Gross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847313874

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Exploring Social Rights by Daphne Barak-Erez,Aeyal Gross Pdf

Exploring Social Rights looks into the theoretical and practical implications of social rights. The book is organised in five parts. Part I considers theoretical aspects of social rights, and looks into their place within political and legal theory and within the human rights tradition; Part II looks at the status of social rights in international law, with reference to the challenge of globalisation and to the significance of specific regional regulation (such as the European System); Part III includes discussions of various legal systems which are of special interest in this area (Canada, South Africa, India and Israel); Part IV looks at the content of a few central social rights (such as the right to education and the right to health); and Part V discusses the relevance of social rights to distinct social groups (women and people with disabilities). The articles in the book, while using the category of social rights, also challenge the separation of rights into distinct categories and question the division of rights to 'civil' vs 'social' rights, from a perspective which considers all rights as 'social'. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with human rights, the legal protection of social rights and social policy. 'Social rights are the stepchildren of the human rights family. Are they really 'rights'? Can courts enforce them? And does it make any difference when they try? This remarkable collection of essays by distinguished scholars offers important new responses to all the basic questions. Ranging across disciplinary and national boundaries and brimming with both theoretical and practical insights, the book is especially welcome in this moment of mounting inequalities and growing interest in the possibilities and perils of social rights.' William E Forbath, Lloyd M Bentsen Chair in Law and Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin 'At the auspicious moment of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more than half a century since the beginning of the Human Rights Revolution–a time characterized by the end of the cold war, globalization and privatization, comes this important compilation which critically revisits the international commitment to social rights, and reconceives its core distinguishing principles–from crosscutting comparative, theoretical and practical perspectives–illuminating our commitment to human security.' Ruti Teitel, Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School. Author, 'Transitional Justice' (OUP 2002)

Author : Stephen Hopgood,Jack Snyder,Leslie Vinjamuri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107193352

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Human Rights Futures by Stephen Hopgood,Jack Snyder,Leslie Vinjamuri Pdf

With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy.

Author : McCann, Gerard,Ó hAdhmaill, Felim
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447349228

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International Human Rights, Social Policy & Global by McCann, Gerard,Ó hAdhmaill, Felim Pdf

With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs. For those with an interest in social policy, ethics, politics and international relations, this is an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities.

Author : Steven L. B. Jensen,Charles Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316519233

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Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History by Steven L. B. Jensen,Charles Walton Pdf

A pioneering study in the history of social rights, filling a significant gap in human rights scholarship and practice.

Author : Anna Coote
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1854890387

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The Welfare of Citizens by Anna Coote Pdf

Author : Ontario Human Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Human rights
ISBN : OCLC:460168291

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Droits de la Personne Et Les Logements Locatif en Ontario : Document de Consultation by Ontario Human Rights Commission Pdf

Author : Katherine van Wormer,Rosemary J. Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190612849

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Social Work and Social Welfare by Katherine van Wormer,Rosemary J. Link Pdf

Unique in its use of a human rights framework, Social Work and Social Welfare goes beyond American borders to examine U.S. government policies-including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice-within a global context. Guided by the belief that forces from the global market and predominant political ideologies affect all social workers in their practice, the book addresses a wide range of relevant topics, including the refugee journey, the impact of new technologies, war trauma, environmental justice, and restorative justice. As a general textbook, the content is organized to follow outlines for basic, introductory, and more advanced courses examining social welfare programs, policies, and issues.

Author : Hartley Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317904724

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Welfare Rights and Social Policy by Hartley Dean Pdf

Welfare Rights and Social Policy provides an introduction to social policy through a discussion of welfare rights, which are explored in historical, comparative and critical context. At a time when the cause of human rights is high on the global political agendathe authorasks why the status of welfare rights as an element of human rights remains ambiguous. Rights to social security, employment, housing, education, health and social care are critical to human well-being. Yet they are invariably subordinate to the civil and political rights of citizenship, they are often fragile and difficult to enforce, and because of their conditional nature they may be implicated in the social control of individual behaviour.

Author : Yeates, Nicola,Holden, Chris
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447358053

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Understanding Global Social Policy by Yeates, Nicola,Holden, Chris Pdf

With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North. Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters have also been fully updated to reflect major developments in the fast-changing world of global social policy. Key features include: • overview and summary boxes to bookend each chapter; • questions for discussion and follow-up activities; • further reading and resources. Exploring what it means to locate human welfare within a global framework of social policy analysis and action, this textbook offers a perfect guide for curious students.

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674984820

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Not Enough by Samuel Moyn Pdf

The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice. In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to fulfill their citizens’ most basic needs without forgetting to contain how much the rich could tower over the rest. In the wake of two world wars and the collapse of empires, new states tried to take welfare beyond its original European and American homelands and went so far as to challenge inequality on a global scale. But their plans were foiled as a neoliberal faith in markets triumphed instead. Moyn places the career of the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift from the egalitarian politics of yesterday to the neoliberal globalization of today. Exploring why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside enduring and exploding inequality, and why activists came to seek remedies for indigence without challenging wealth, Not Enough calls for more ambitious ideals and movements to achieve a humane and equitable world.