Author : Hartley Dean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317904729
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Welfare Rights and Social Policy by : Hartley Dean
Download or read book Welfare Rights and Social Policy written by Hartley Dean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.