"The aims of this volume are to rethink the history of social rights and, in doing so, help develop a historiography that speaks to the broader fields of human rights scholarship and practice. It is only very recently that a critical historiography on social rights has started to emerge, but it has yet to displace deeply rooted assumptions underpinning historical interpretations. These assumptions have, unfortunately, led to a number of distortions and misconceptions about the substance of these rights, their origins and their historical trajectories. There is a record to set straight before we can start re-imagining a more nuanced account of the long history of social rights, and this opening chapter tries to do that. First, it addresses how social rights have been misconstrued - both by sympathisers and sceptics. Second, it lays out a new approach to studying the long history of social rights, one in which the question of duties and obligations is central. Third, it presents the volume's three-prong structure and contents, which cover the medieval period to the present and span the globe. Taken together, the chapters of this volume seek to reshape the historiography of rights by examining the role and significance of social rights within it. They also explore the relation of these rights to questions about freedom, justice, equality and dignity in global history"--
"The aims of this volume are to rethink the history of social rights and, in doing so, help develop a historiography that speaks to the broader fields of human rights scholarship and practice. It is only very recently that a critical historiography on social rights has started to emerge, but it has yet to displace deeply rooted assumptions underpinning historical interpretations. These assumptions have, unfortunately, led to a number of distortions and misconceptions about the substance of these rights, their origins and their historical trajectories. There is a record to set straight before we can start re-imagining a more nuanced account of the long history of social rights, and this opening chapter tries to do that. First, it addresses how social rights have been misconstrued - both by sympathisers and sceptics. Second, it lays out a new approach to studying the long history of social rights, one in which the question of duties and obligations is central. Third, it presents the volume's three-prong structure and contents, which cover the medieval period to the present and span the globe. Taken together, the chapters of this volume seek to reshape the historiography of rights by examining the role and significance of social rights within it. They also explore the relation of these rights to questions about freedom, justice, equality and dignity in global history"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: 1. Not 'second-generation rights': rethinking the history of social rights Steven L. B. Jensen and Charles Walton; Part I. Religion, Markets, States: Sources of Social Rights before the Twentieth Century: 2. The rights of the poor: taking the long view Julia McClure; 3. Public welfare and the natural order: on the theological and free-market sources of socioeconomic rights Dan Edelstein; 4. Who pays? Social rights and the French revolution Charles Walton; 5. The Haitian revolution and socioeconomic rights Philip Kaisary; 6. Of rights and regulation: technologies of socioeconomic governance in a revolutionary age Stephen Sawyer and William Novak; 7. Socioeconomic rights before the welfare state: labour movements and economic emancipation in nineteenth-century Europe Nicolas Delalande; Part II. Race, Gender, Class: Social Rights and the Paradoxes of Difference: 8. The soviet social: rights and welfare reimagined Scott Newton; 9. The Japanese 'welfare society': social rights and the seeds of the precariat? Bernard Thomann; 10. Liberation theology, social rights and indigenous rights in Mexico (c1965¿2000), Rosie Doyle; 11. The unhappy marriage of gender and socioeconomic rights in France Laura Frader; Part III. Social Rights in the Age of Internationalism: The Politics of State Obligations: 12. The spirit of social rights, Samuel Moyn; 13. From human welfare to human rights: considering socioeconomic rights through the 1947¿1948 UNESCO human rights survey Mark Goodale; 14. Claiming land, claiming rights in Africa's internationally supervised territories Meredith Terretta; 15. The road from 1966: social and economic rights after the international covenant Christian O. Christiansen and Steven L. B. Jensen; Epilogue: 16. The present and future of social rights Philip Alston; Index.
