The ethics of welfare : human rights, dependency, and responsibility / [electronic resource]
Dean, Hartley,1949-editor.
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.
THE ETHICS OF WELFARE; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1. Human rights and welfare rights: contextualising dependency and responsibility; 2. Dependency, justice and the ethic of care; 3. Responsibility and welfare: in search of moral sensibility; 4. Popular discourses of dependency, responsibility and rights; 5. Fostering a human rights discourse in the provision of social care for adults; 6. Administering rights for dependent subjects; 7. Agency, 'dependency' and welfare: beyond issues of claim and contribution?
8. Ethical techniques of the self and the 'good jobseeker'9. New Labour, citizenship and responsibility: family, community and the obscuring of social relations; 10. Reconceptualising dependency, responsibility and rights; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2022).
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.
Public welfare
Public welfare