Welfare rights and social policy
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Welfare rights and social policy
Routledge, 2016
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2002
"First issued in hardback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-244) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I - WELFARE RIGHTS IN THEORY
1. The Social Rights of Citizenship
The Amelioration of Class
The Origins of Rights
Social Rights and 'Privatisation'
Summary/Conclusion
2. Poverty and Need
Defining Poverty
Defining Need
Rights and Equality
Citizenship and Welfare
Summary/Conclusion
3. Welfare Rights in Global Perspective
Social Rights and Social Development
Welfare State Capitalism
The Globalisation of Social Policy
Global Citizenship and Human Rights
Summary/Conclusion
4. Critiques of Welfare Rights
The Neo-Liberal Challenge
The Neo-Marxist Challenge
The Challenges of 'Post-Modernity'
Summary/Conclusion
PART II - WELFARE RIGHTS IN PRACTICE
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
6. Rights to Work
Employment Protection
The Working-Age Benefits Regime
'In Work' Benefits
Incapacity
Summary/Conclusion
7. Rights to Shelter
Paying for Housing
Protection Against Exploitation and Eviction
Housing Conditions
Homelessness and the Rationing of Social-Sector Housing
Summary/Conclusion
8. Rights in Education, Health and Social Care
Education
Health
Social Care
Summary/Conclusion
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
10. Discourses of Citizenship, Rights and Responsibility
Traditions of Citizenship
Interpreting Rights
Rights and Responsibility
Summary/Conclusion
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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