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Subject(s)

• Social policy [Browse]
• Public welfare—Great Britain [Browse]
• Great Britain—Social policy [Browse]

Summary note

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 oft

Notes

First published 2002 by Pearson Education Limited.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 28, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Welfare rights in theory; Chapter 1 The social rights of citizenship; The amelioration of class; The origins of rights; Social rights and 'privatisation'; Summary/conclusion; Chapter 2 Poverty and need; Defining poverty; Defining need; Rights and equality; Citizenship and welfare; Summary/conclusion; Chapter 3 Welfare rights in global perspective; Social rights and social development; Welfare state capitalism; The globalisation of social policy
• Global citizenship and human rightsSummary/conclusion; Chapter 4 Critiques of welfare rights; The neo-liberal challenge; The neo-Marxist challenge; The challenges of 'postmodernity'; Summary/conclusion; Part II Welfare rights in practice; Chapter 5 Rights to subsistence; A hybrid system; The traditional means-test; Enforcing family responsibilities; Security in old age; The rights of disabled people and carers; Summary/conclusion; Chapter 6 Rights and work; Employment protection; The working-age benefits regime; In-work benefits; Incapacity; Summary/conclusion; Chapter 7 Rights to shelter
• Paying for housingProtection against exploitation and eviction; Housing conditions; Homelessness and the rationing of social sector housing; Summary/conclusion; Chapter 8 Rights in education, health and social care; Education; Health; Social care; Summary/conclusion; Chapter 9 Rights of redress; The juridification of welfare; Access to legal expertise; The role of the courts; Administrative redress; Summary/conclusion; Part III Rethinking welfare rights; Chapter 10 Discourses of citizenship, rights and responsibility; Traditions of citizenship; Interpreting rights; Rights and responsibility
• Summary/conclusionChapter 11 Welfare reform or social resistance?; Welfare reformism; Social resistance; The autonomous subject and the ethical state; Summary/conclusion; References; Index

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ISBN

• 1-317-90472-9
• 1-138-15404-0
• 1-315-84772-8
• 1-317-90473-7

OCLC

• 881417478
• 897464213
• 884585039

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315847726

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