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1 online resource (407 pages) |
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Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why Economic and Social Human Rights?; 1. What Are Economic and Social Human Rights?; 2. Some Contemporary Issues; a. Foundations; b. Costs; c. On the Interdependence and Indivisibility of All Human Rights; 3. Sections and Chapters; a. Core Rights; b. Nondiscrimination; c. Meta Rights; I Core Rights; 2 The Right to Food: A Global Perspective; I. Introduction; II. The Right to Food Under International Law; III. Global and National Level Drivers of Hunger; A. Global Drivers of Hunger; B. National Drivers of Hunger |
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IV. Monitoring Compliance with Global and National Level Obligations to Respect, Protect, and Fulfill the Right to FoodA. Commitments to Uphold the Right to Food; World Commitments; State Level Commitments; B. Efforts Toward the Realization of the Right to Food; Global Efforts; National Efforts; C. Securing the Right to Food; V. Conclusion; 3 Globalization and the Right to Health; Introduction; Implications of Globalization for Right to Health; Impact on Health Trends; Impact on Health Access and Health Systems; Impact on the Social Determinants of Health |
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Impact of Globalization on the Availability of Health Personnel in Poor CountriesImpact of Transnational Actors on the Right to Health; World Bank and Structural Adjustment; World Trade Organization, TRIPS Agreement, and Access to Essential Medicines; International Aid Donors; Conclusion; 4 Demolishing Housing Rights in the Name of Market Fundamentalism: The Dynamics of Displacement in the United States, India, and South Africa; 1. Introduction; a. Mumbai, India: Whose World-Class City?; b. Chicago, Illinois: Left out of the Loop; c. Johannesburg, South Africa: Resisting Inner-City Evictions |
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2. Changing the Question3. Challenging Assumptions; a. Ownership Trumps All; b. State Provision of Alternative Accommodation; c. Engagement; 4. Conclusion; 5 Implementation of the Human Right to Social Security around the World: A Preliminary Analysis of National Social Protections Laws; I. Introduction; II. Measuring the Scope of Social Security Laws; III. Social Protection Rights around the World 1969-2010; A. Expansion of Legal Protections; B. ICESCR and Legal Protection; B. An Index of the Breadth of Social Security Rights; IV. Accounting for Legalization of Social Protection |
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A. Treaty AccessionB. Income; C. Other Influences: Democracy, Legal Traditions, Ethnic Fragmentation; V. Results; VI. Conclusion; 6 Why Is the Right to Work So Hard to Secure?; Introduction; The United States' Failure to Secure the Right to Work; The New Deals Anticipation of the Universal Declaration; The New Deal Human Rights Vision; The Substitution of Keynesian Fiscal Policy for Direct Job Creation in the Progressive Employment Strategy; Progressive Employment Policy from the End of World War II to the End of the "60s"; Progressive Employment Policy since the End of the "60s." |
| 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 non-discrimination, 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 fulfil those obligations. The book's introductory and concluding chapters address conceptual issues and correct mistakes often made by critics of economic and social rights"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Economic aspects
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Human rights -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Human rights -- Economic aspects
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Human rights -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Minkler, Lanse, editor
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| ISBN |
9781139612715 |
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1139612719 |
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9781139625739 |
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113962573X |
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9781139235600 |
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1139235605 |
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9781139616430 |
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1139616439 |
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1139610856 |
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9781139610858 |
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1107236908 |
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9781107236905 |
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1107255619 |
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9781107255616 |
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1283871122 |
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9781283871129 |
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1139622013 |
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9781139622011 |
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