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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of acronyms; Preface; PART ONE Social rights in theory; 1 The social rights of citizenship; The coming of welfare capitalism; The origins and species of rights; Post-industrial capitalism and the privatisation of social rights; Summary/conclusion; 2 Human need and human rights; Concepts of need; The international human rights agenda; The failures of social rights; Summary/conclusion; 3 Ethics and social rights; Ethics and morality; Hegemonic and minor traditions of rights discourse |
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Taxonomising rights-based perspectivesSummary/conclusion; 4 Critiques of social rights; An uneasy consensus; Grand narrative critiques; A post-grand narrative era?; Summary/conclusion; PART TWO Social rights in practice; 5 Social rights in global context; Social rights and human development; Regions and regimes; The cultural critique; Globalisation; Summary/conclusion; 6 Rights to livelihood; The right to work; The right to subsistence; The subsistence rights of workers; Summary/conclusion; 7 Rights to human services; Rights to shelter; Rights to education; Rights to health |
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Rights to social careSummary/conclusion; 8 Rights of redress; Social rights and the law; Levels of redress; Summary/conclusion; PART THREE Re-thinking social rights; 9 Social rights and social development; Self-determination and the right to development; Development and the technical means to alleviate poverty; Poverty as a violation of rights?; Summary/conclusion; 10 The future of social rights; A post-Marshallian theory of social rights; Challenging the normative foundations of the human rights agenda; What is to be done?; Summary/conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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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 socia |
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Social rights -- Great Britain
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Social policy.
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Public welfare.
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Social rights.
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Public Policy
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public policy.
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welfare services.
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Public welfare
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Social policy
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Social rights
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Great Britain
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1336013133 |
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9781336013131 |
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9781317747505 |
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131774750X |
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