Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights and Professor in Global Studies and Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Reparations to Africa, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Claude E. Welch, Jr. is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is the author of many books, including Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Nongovernmental Organizations, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Introduction: Looking at Ourselves-Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr.PART I. PHILOSOPHY, LAW, AND POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RIGHTSJustifying Socioeconomic Rights-Brian Orend2. International Law of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A U.S. Perspective-David Weissbrodt3. On the Margins of the Human Rights Discourse: Foreign Policy and International Welfare Rights-David P. Forsythe and Eric A. HeinzePART II. POVERTY4. Homelessness in Canada and the United States-Barbara Wake Carroll5. Welfare Racism and Human Rights-Kenneth J. Neubeck6. The Movement to End Poverty in the United States-Mary Bricker-Jenkins and Willie BaptistPART III. CONTENTIOUS AND EMERGING ISSUES7. So Close and Yet so Different: The Right to Health Care in the United States and Canada-Virginia A. Leary8. International Labor Rights and North American Labor Law-James B. Atleson9. Deconstructing Barriers: The Promise of Socioeconomic Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada-Sarah Armstrong, Mindy Noble, and Pauline Rosenbaum10. The Economic Rights of Migrants and Immigrant Workers in Canada and the United States-Vic SatzewichPART IV. A EUROPEAN COMPARISON11. The Netherlands: A Walhalla of Economic and Social Rights?-Peter R. BaehrAppendix 1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsAppendix 2. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941Appendix 3. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 11, 1944AbbreviationsContributorsNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights and Professor in Global Studies and Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Reparations to Africa, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Claude E. Welch, Jr. is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is the author of many books, including Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Nongovernmental Organizations, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Introduction: Looking at Ourselves-Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr.PART I. PHILOSOPHY, LAW, AND POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RIGHTSJustifying Socioeconomic Rights-Brian Orend2. International Law of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A U.S. Perspective-David Weissbrodt3. On the Margins of the Human Rights Discourse: Foreign Policy and International Welfare Rights-David P. Forsythe and Eric A. HeinzePART II. POVERTY4. Homelessness in Canada and the United States-Barbara Wake Carroll5. Welfare Racism and Human Rights-Kenneth J. Neubeck6. The Movement to End Poverty in the United States-Mary Bricker-Jenkins and Willie BaptistPART III. CONTENTIOUS AND EMERGING ISSUES7. So Close and Yet so Different: The Right to Health Care in the United States and Canada-Virginia A. Leary8. International Labor Rights and North American Labor Law-James B. Atleson9. Deconstructing Barriers: The Promise of Socioeconomic Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada-Sarah Armstrong, Mindy Noble, and Pauline Rosenbaum10. The Economic Rights of Migrants and Immigrant Workers in Canada and the United States-Vic SatzewichPART IV. A EUROPEAN COMPARISON11. The Netherlands: A Walhalla of Economic and Social Rights?-Peter R. BaehrAppendix 1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsAppendix 2. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941Appendix 3. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 11, 1944AbbreviationsContributorsNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights and Professor in Global Studies and Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She is the author of several books, including Reparations to Africa, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Claude E. Welch, Jr. is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is the author of many books, including Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Nongovernmental Organizations, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Introduction: Looking at Ourselves-Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr.PART I. PHILOSOPHY, LAW, AND POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RIGHTSJustifying Socioeconomic Rights-Brian Orend2. International Law of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A U.S. Perspective-David Weissbrodt3. On the Margins of the Human Rights Discourse: Foreign Policy and International Welfare Rights-David P. Forsythe and Eric A. HeinzePART II. POVERTY4. Homelessness in Canada and the United States-Barbara Wake Carroll5. Welfare Racism and Human Rights-Kenneth J. Neubeck6. The Movement to End Poverty in the United States-Mary Bricker-Jenkins and Willie BaptistPART III. CONTENTIOUS AND EMERGING ISSUES7. So Close and Yet so Different: The Right to Health Care in the United States and Canada-Virginia A. Leary8. International Labor Rights and North American Labor Law-James B. Atleson9. Deconstructing Barriers: The Promise of Socioeconomic Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada-Sarah Armstrong, Mindy Noble, and Pauline Rosenbaum10. The Economic Rights of Migrants and Immigrant Workers in Canada and the United States-Vic SatzewichPART IV. A EUROPEAN COMPARISON11. The Netherlands: A Walhalla of Economic and Social Rights?-Peter R. BaehrAppendix 1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsAppendix 2. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941Appendix 3. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 11, 1944AbbreviationsContributorsNotesIndexAcknowledgments