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Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History

Av Steven L. B. Jensen, Charles Walton

Del i serien Human Rights in History

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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.
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Steven L. B. Jensen is Senior Researcher at The Danish Institute for Human Rights. He is author of the multiple prize-winning book The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization and the Reconstruction of Global Values (2016) and co-editor of Histories of Global Inequality: New Perspectives (2019). He has previously worked for the UNAIDS and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Charles Walton is Reader in History at the University of Warwick. He is author of the prize-winning Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (2009) and editor of Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment (2012) and a special issue on social rights in French History (2019). He has previously taught at Sciences Po and Yale University.

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'This collection expands our view of rights, bringing together differing opinions among its authors, looking back in time, and bridging the false dichotomy between social and political/civic rights. These valuable essays combine attention to historical detail with a keen sense of the intellectual and political stakes in debates over rights.' Frederick Cooper, New York University

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