Research Handbook on Social Welfare Law

Edited by Helen Carr, Professor of Property Law and Social Justice, University of Southampton, Edward Kirton-Darling, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School, Jed Meers, Senior Lecturer in Law, York Law School, University of York, UK and Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês, Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School, Brazil

‘Ranging across time, place and scholarly disciplines, from colonial origins of welfare states to digitalisation and the Covid crisis, this book provides a rich feast of ideas for welfare state scholars. Its particular value is in the combination of theoretical and empirical research which should appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines and at different career stages.’

• ContentsINTRODUCTION1 The stories of social welfare law: territories, tactics, temporalities 3Helen Carr, Edward Kirton-Darling, Jed Meers and Maria Fernanda Salcedo RepolêsBEGINNINGS2 Charity and the roots of social welfare 20Jonathan Garton3 Ethical challenges of researching social welfare 40Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês and André Luiz Freitas DiasTHE WELFARE–WORK NEXUS4 ‘Poor citizens’: social welfare and the encouragement of work 61Ciara Fitzpatrick5 Conditional inclusion and the enduring appeal of colonial poor laws 83Jeremy SeekingsSOCIAL INSURANCE AND RISK6 Insuring the social: the foundations of social insurance 106Pat O’Malley7 Social insurance in the global south: the case of India 123Dayashankar Maurya and Sashrika Cooray NanayakkaraWELFARE RIGHTS8 Social rights and constitutionalism in South Africa 144Danie Brand9 Welfare rights in theory and practice 158Grainne McKeever and Mark SimpsonWELFARE IN ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ STATES10 China’s social welfare system in transition 174T�i�n�g� �Z�u�o�,� �J�i�n�g� �J�i�n�,� �a�n�d� �R�o�w�a�n� �A�l�c�o�c�k�11 The American ‘social welfare safety net’ 193A�n�n�e� �D�a�g�u�e�r�r�e�DECISION-MAKING12 Regulatory technologies and front-line decision-making 209J�e�n�n�i�f�e�r� �R�a�s�o�13 Decision making and decision space at the street level: a comparison of primary health care systems in Indonesia and Thailand 226T�a�t�c�h�a�l�e�r�m� �S�u�d�h�i�p�o�n�g�p�r�a�c�h�a�CONDITIONALITY14 Conditional cash: the case of the Brazilian Bolsa Família 246W�a�l�q�u�ír�i�a� �L�e�ão� �R�e�g�o� �a�n�d� �A�l�e�s�s�a�n�d�r�o� �P�i�n�z�a�n�i�15 Strict conditionality, structural injustice and welfare rights 263A�m�i�r� �P�a�z�-�F�u�c�h�s�PROTECTION AND EMPOWERMENT16 Capacity, Covid, care homes and crises: health and social care in the UK 279J�a�i�m�e� �L�i�n�d�s�e�y�17 The right to social security of persons with disabilities in Africa 296S�e�r�g�e�s� �D�j�o�y�o�u� �K�a�m�g�a�REFRAMINGS18 Welfare state models and the protective legislation lacuna 307G�r�e�g�g� �M�.� �O�l�s�e�n�19 Ending the line: thinking through homelessness in England with intersectionality, epistemic injustice, and utopianism 329H�e�l�e�n� �C�a�r�r� �a�n�d� �C�a�r�i�n� �T�u�n�åk�e�r�20 The right to social assistance in the EU from a national/supranational perspective 352M�a�r�ía� �D�a�l�l�i�