| Description |
1 online resource (263 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; The Left and Rights; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Reformists and revolutionaries; The dispute within socialism; Liberal concepts and socialist ideals; Summary; 2. The moralism of rights; The 'moralism' objection; The critique of 'moral rights'; Rights and rules; 3. The legalism of rights; Formal justice; Social control; Organisational rules; Distributive patterns; Conclusion; 4. The coerciveness of rights; Obligations and sanctions; Kelsen's pure theory; H.L.A. Hart's concept of law; Non-coercive jural agencies; 5. The individualism of rights |
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Contract and power theories of rightsThe interest theory of rights; 6. Socialism and human rights; Pre-social and ahistorical rights; General and fundamental rights; Absolute rights; Conclusion; 7. Justificatory principles; Meritorian justice; Human need; Utility; Socialist principles and socialist rights; 8. Political rights: freedom of expression; Liberalism and freedom of expression; Socialism and freedom of expression; 9. Economic rights: the right to work; The positive right to work; The obligation to work; 10. Welfare rights; The socialist critique of welfare rights |
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Counter-productive welfare lawConclusion; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
The book presents an analysis of the concept of rights and provides an illuminating expression of socialist ideals. The author outlines an analysis of fundamental human rights compatible with historical relativism and applies this to the political right of freedom of expression and the economic right to work. Finally he deploys the proposed analysis of socialist rights to explain the ambivalence of socialist thinkers towards welfare rights in contemporary capitalist states and to analyze the logic of assertions that welfare law is often counter-productive |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135025748 |
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1135025746 |
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