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The Ethics of Welfare. Human Rights, Dependency and Responsibility.
Hartley Dean
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Description for The Ethics of Welfare. Human Rights, Dependency and Responsibility.
Paperback. Britain's New Labour government claims to support the cause of human rights. At the same time, it claims that we can have no rights without responsibility and that dependency on the state is irresponsible. The ethics of welfare offers a critique of this paradox and discusses the ethical conundrum it implies for the future of social welfare. Editor(s): Dean, Hartley. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HPQ; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
The book explores the extent to which rights to welfare are related to human inter-dependency on the one hand and the ethics of responsibility on the other. Its intention is to kick-start a fresh debate about the moral foundations of social policy and welfare reform. The ethics of welfare: explores the concepts of dependency, responsibility and rights and their significance for social citizenship; draws together findings from a range of recent research that has investigated popular, political, welfare provider and welfare user discourses; discusses, in a UK context, the relevance of the recent Human Rights Act for social policy; presents ... Read more
The book explores the extent to which rights to welfare are related to human inter-dependency on the one hand and the ethics of responsibility on the other. Its intention is to kick-start a fresh debate about the moral foundations of social policy and welfare reform. The ethics of welfare: explores the concepts of dependency, responsibility and rights and their significance for social citizenship; draws together findings from a range of recent research that has investigated popular, political, welfare provider and welfare user discourses; discusses, in a UK context, the relevance of the recent Human Rights Act for social policy; presents ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861345622
SKU
V9781861345622
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99-50
About Hartley Dean
Hartley Dean is a former welfare rights worker, now a lecturer in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Reviews for The Ethics of Welfare. Human Rights, Dependency and Responsibility.
"Although essentially this is an academic book, it would be of help to anyone working in welfare or benefits provision or social services." Community Care "A stimulating contribution to the debate about the rights and obligations of citizenship." Alan Deacon, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds