Welfare to work : conditional rights in social policy / Amir Paz-Fuchs.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Welfare recipients -- Great Britain -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Welfare recipients -- United States -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Public welfare -- Great Britain.

Public welfare -- United States.

Welfare to work programmes that apply conditions to benefits constitute a new type of social contract. This book argues that conditional welfare undermines civil rights and that strengthening welfare rights and relaxing rules of entitlement would better achieve the ends that welfare to work programmes should advance.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.

xx, 226 p. ; 24 cm