Economic Rights in Canada and the United States /

Economic Rights in Canada and the United States / / ed. by Claude E. Welch, Jr., Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann.

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Readers in Western developed countries are most familiar with abuses of political and civil rights, but the international human rights regime also embraces a set of laws regarding economic rights. These rights include the right to work and to just and favorable working conditions; the right to join...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, Sarah,
Atleson, James B.,
Baehr, Peter R.,
Baptist, Willie,
Bricker-Jenkins, Mary,
Carroll, Barbara Wake,
Forsythe, David P.,
Heinze, Eric A.,
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.,
Leary, Virginia A.,
Neubeck, Kenneth J.,
Noble, Mindy,
Orend, Brian,
Rosenbaum, Pauline,
Satzewich, Vic,
Weissbrodt, David,
Welch, E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.,
Jr., Claude E. Welch,,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2006
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Looking at Ourselves
  • Part I. Philosophy, Law, and Politics of Economic Rights
  • Chapter 1. Justifying Socioeconomic Rights
  • Chapter 2. International Law of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
  • Chapter 3. On the Margins of the Human Rights Discourse
  • Part II. Poverty
  • Chapter 4. Homelessness in Canada and the United States
  • Chapter 5. Welfare Racism and Human Rights
  • Chapter 6. The Movement to End Poverty in the United States
  • Part III. Contentious and Emerging Issues
  • Chapter 7. So Close and Yet So Different
  • Chapter 8. International Labor Rights and North American Labor Law
  • Chapter 9. Deconstructing Barriers
  • Chapter 10. The Economic Rights of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada and the United States
  • Part IV. A European Comparison
  • Chapter 11. The Netherlands
  • Appendix 1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Appendix 2. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941
  • Appendix 3. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 11, 1944
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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