Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Rights and Needs Definitions and Actions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xiii-xiii

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   2. Rights And Their Realisation

      • Dilys M. Hill

      Pages 1-21

   3. A Defence of Welfare Rights

      • Raymond Plant

      Pages 22-46

   4. The Realisation and Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

      • Julia Häusermann

      Pages 47-73

   5. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Development of Governments’ Views, 1941–88

      • Sally Morphet

      Pages 74-92

   6. Justiciability Re-examined

      • Michael K. Addo

      Pages 93-117

3. Contemporary Public Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Rights and Performance: Economic and Social Rights in the UK

      • Ralph Beddard

      Pages 121-133

   3. Universal Rights and Public Policy: The Case for Equal Opportunity

      • Ian Forbes

      Pages 134-152

   4. The European Social Charter: Employment, Unions and Strikes

      • Vivien J. Shrubsall

      Pages 153-162

   5. Implementing the Right to Education in England

      • Julian Lonbay

      Pages 163-183

   6. Recognising a Right to Health

      • Jonathan Montgomery

      Pages 184-203

4. Back Matter

   Pages 204-216

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This book explores two main themes. First, the claim that these welfare, education, health and equality can be accorded the status of rights. Second, and relatedly, the issue of whether they are justiciable, that is, can they be the subject of adjudication and enforcement through traditional legal mechanisms? This book provides a timely and wide-ranging exploration of these topical and controversial issues.

• development
• education
• employment
• Equal Opportunity
• health
• public policy
• science and technology
• unions
• welfare

• University of Southampton, UK

  Ralph Beddard, Dilys M. Hill

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