Social Rights and Human Welfare2015

"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...