Welfare to Work - Conditional Rights in Social Policy (Hardcover)

Welfare to work programs aim to assist the long-term unemployed in finding work; increasing labor market flexibility, eliminating dependency, and tackling social exclusion. They have been implemented in many Western countries. This book focuses on an important and novel feature of these programs: they replace the rights-based entitlements that have characterized the welfare state for decades with conditional rights dependent on the fulfillment of obligations: conditions are attached to the benefits received.
This new type of social contract between the claimant and the State carries with it a new construction of the relationship between rights and responsibilities, and a new interpretation of citizenship. Paz-Fuchs examines the theoretical underpinnings of welfare-to-work programs, incorporating a comparative analysis of the UK and USA, where the ideal of social citizenship is being curtailed through welfare reforms. He argues that when the rhetoric of the social contract is used to imply a continuous contract between citizens and the state, a vast array of conditions on welfare can be legitimated, including workfare; the obligation to accept any job offer; and moral and social preconditions that are based on a vague notion of reciprocity. Paz-Fuchs argues, by contrast, that conditional welfare undermines civil rights such as the right to privacy and family life by requiring welfare claimants to change their behavior. He contends that strengthening welfare rights and relaxing preconditions on entitlement would better serve the objectives that welfare to work programs are supposed to advance.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Labour Law
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	April 2008
Authors:	Amir Paz-Fuchs
Dimensions:	241 x 164 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-923741-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
LSN:	0-19-923741-7
Barcode:	9780199237418

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