Format:
1 online resource (xi, 338 pages)
ISBN:
9781009008686
Series Statement:
Human rights in history
Content:
This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' - rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social rights stretch back that far; they arguably pre-date the Enlightenment. In tracing their long history across various global contexts, this volume reveals how debates over social rights have often turned on deeper struggles over social obligation - over determining who owes what to whom, morally and legally. In the modern period, these struggles have been intertwined with questions of freedom, democracy, equality and dignity. Many factors have shaped the history of social rights, from class, gender and race to religion, empire and capitalism. With incomparable chronological depth, geographical breadth and conceptual nuance, Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History sets an agenda for future histories of human rights.
Note:
The story behind this volume starts with a workshop on "Writing the History of Socioeconomic Rights", which was held at the University of Warwick in May 2015 and which focused on establishing a research network to examine the long history of economic and social rights. Soon after, the Leverhulme Trust awarded Charles Walton a multi-year International Network Grant to develop a Socioeconomic Rights in History Network. Between 2015 and 2018, six workshops were held in collaboration with partner institutions in four countries (France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States). These efforts form the basis for the history of social rights presented in this volume. Its two editors met at Warwick for the first time and eventually joined forces to prepare this volume. -- Acknowledgements
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316519233
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009005111
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Social rights and the politics of obligation in history Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781316519233
Language:
English
Keywords:
Menschenrecht
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1017/9781009008686
