The ethics of welfare: Human rights, dependency and responsibility
Hartley Dean
Abstract
This 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 book explores the concepts of dependency, responsibility, 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 ... More
This 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 book explores the concepts of dependency, responsibility, 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, and presents arguments in favour of a human rights based approach to social welfare.
Keywords:
rights to welfare,
ethics of responsibility,
morality,
social policy,
welfare reform,
social citizenship,
Human Rights Act
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781861345622 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861345622.001.0001 |
