Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
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Part of Human Rights in History
- Editors:
- Steven L. B. Jensen, The Danish Institute for Human Rights
- Charles Walton, University of Warwick
- Date Published: January 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316519233
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This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social rights stretch back that far; they arguably pre-date the Enlightenment. In tracing their long history across various global contexts, this volume reveals how debates over social rights have often turned on deeper struggles over social obligation – over determining who owes what to whom, morally and legally. In the modern period, these struggles have been intertwined with questions of freedom, democracy, equality and dignity. Many factors have shaped the history of social rights, from class, gender and race to religion, empire and capitalism. With incomparable chronological depth, geographical breadth and conceptual nuance, Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History sets an agenda for future histories of human rights.
Read more- Situates the history of social rights in national and global contexts
- Reveals the paradoxical relationship between social rights and social differences, especially of gender, race and class
- Will appeal to a broad range of scholars interested in human rights across History, Politics and Law
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'This collection expands our view of rights, bringing together differing opinions among its authors, looking back in time, and bridging the false dichotomy between social and political/civic rights. These valuable essays combine attention to historical detail with a keen sense of the intellectual and political stakes in debates over rights.' Frederick Cooper, New York University
See more reviews'Jensen and Walton provide a rich and eye-opening edited volume showcasing the latest historical research on social rights. The volume advances the research agenda and busts prominent myths in the field, demonstrating that social rights did not arrive as part of three sequential generation of rights, that human rights were not born in the 1970s, and that the origins of social rights predate socialism. The introduction by the editors and the bracing conclusion by Phillip Alston belong on all human rights syllabi.' Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard University
'Economic and social rights history was never dull, but in both sharpening and lengthening that history, Stephen Jensen and Charles Walton have produced a book that is vital reading for human rights scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers. I have not seen a better treatment of what the shortcut thinking of 'generations' of rights - first as civil and political, second as economic, social and cultural, and third as collective, solidarity, and environmental rights - misses.' Katharine G. Young, Boston College Law School
'The book ushers in a revolution in the history of human rights which has long exclusively been focused on civil and political rights. It provides a framework for a wide range of research and forges a set of tools for thinking about social rights.' Karim Fertikh, H-Soz-Kult
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- Date Published: January 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316519233
- length: 335 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction:
1. Not 'second-generation rights': rethinking the history of social rights Steven L. B. Jensen and Charles Walton
Part I. Religion, Markets, States: Sources of Social Rights before the Twentieth Century:
2. The rights of the poor: taking the long view Julia McClure
3. Public welfare and the natural order: on the theological and free-market sources of socioeconomic rights Dan Edelstein
4. Who pays? Social rights and the French revolution Charles Walton
5. The Haitian revolution and socioeconomic rights Philip Kaisary
6. Of rights and regulation: technologies of socioeconomic governance in a revolutionary age Stephen Sawyer and William Novak
7. Socioeconomic rights before the welfare state: labour movements and economic emancipation in nineteenth-century Europe Nicolas Delalande
Part II. Race, Gender, Class: Social Rights and the Paradoxes of Difference:
8. The soviet social: rights and welfare reimagined Scott Newton
9. The Japanese 'welfare society': social rights and the seeds of the precariat? Bernard Thomann
10. Liberation theology, social rights and indigenous rights in Mexico (c1965–2000), Rosie Doyle
11. The unhappy marriage of gender and socioeconomic rights in France Laura Frader
Part III. Social Rights in the Age of Internationalism: The Politics of State Obligations:
12. The spirit of social rights, Samuel Moyn
13. From human welfare to human rights: considering socioeconomic rights through the 1947–1948 UNESCO human rights survey Mark Goodale
14. Claiming land, claiming rights in Africa's internationally supervised territories Meredith Terretta
15. The road from 1966: social and economic rights after the international covenant Christian O. Christiansen and Steven L. B. Jensen
Epilogue:
16. The present and future of social rights Philip Alston
Index.
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