Research Catalog

Title

Welfare to work : conditional rights in social policy / Amir Paz-Fuchs.

Author

Paz-Fuchs, Amir, 1971-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

xx, 226 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Welfare-to-work programmes aim to assist the long-term unemployed in finding work, to increase labour market flexibility, to eliminate dependency, and to tackle social exclusion. They have been implemented in many Western countries. This book focuses on an important and novel feature of these programmes: replacing the rights-based entitlements that have characterized the welfare state for decades with conditional rights dependent on the fulfilment of obligations." "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 programmes, 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. These conditions include 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 behaviour. He contends that strengthening welfare rights and relaxing preconditions on entitlement would better serve the objectives that welfare-to-work programmes are supposed to advance."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford monographs on labour law

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs on labour law

Subject

• Welfare recipients > Employment > Law and legislation > Great Britain
• Welfare recipients > Employment > Law and legislation > United States
• Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain
• Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Public welfare > Great Britain
• Public welfare > United States
• Public welfare
• Welfare recipients > Employment > Law and legislation
• Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc
• Arbeitslosenversicherung
• Arbeitslosigkeit
• Sozialpolitik
• workfare
• work incentive
• welfare state
• social security legislation
• social security reform
• eligibility
• beneficiary
• allocation conditionnelle
• incitation au travail
• Etat-providence
• législation de sécurité sociale
• réforme de la sécurité sociale
• conditions d'ouverture des droits
• bénéficiaire
• asistencia social condicional
• incentivo al trabajo
• legislación de seguridad social
• reforma de la seguridad social
• elegibilidad
• beneficiario
• Estado benefactor
• Great Britain
• United States
• Großbritannien
• USA
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
• Estados Unidos
• Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

• comment.
• commentaire.
• comentario.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-222) and index.

Contents

Welfare-to-work programmes in modern welfare states -- Welfare-to-work programmes under the Poor Laws -- Contemporary welfare-to-work programmes -- From equality to the right to welfare -- Welfare, work, and social inclusion.

ISBN

• 9780199237418
• 0199237417

LCCN

• 2007048427
• 9780199237418

OCLC

• ocn183179467
• 183179467
• SCSB-8874326

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library