The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview

edited by Lanse Minkler, fl. 1993 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2013, originally published 2013), 406 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology, and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of nondiscrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around the world by emphasizing the obstacles that prevent governments from fulfilling their obligations. The interdisciplinary analysis offers a detailed and up-to-date discussion to help scholars and policy makers find the best ways to instantiate economic and social rights. The authors examine the role of the associated obligations, and especially the obstacles to respect, protect, and fulfill those obligations. The book's introductory and concluding chapters address conceptual issues and correct mistakes often made by critics of economic and social rights.
Field of Interest: Social Work
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Content Type: Book
Duration: 0 sec
Format: Text
Original Publication Date: 2013
Page Count: 406
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place Published / Released: Cambridge, England
Subject: Social Work, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, History of Social Work, Economic, social and cultural rights, Economics, Human rights, Macro