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Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World, Hardback Book

Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World Hardback

Edited by Gillian (University of Massachusetts, Boston) MacNaughton, Diane F. (San Francisco State University) Frey

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The rise of neoliberal policy and practice simultaneous to the growing recognition of economic and social rights presents a puzzle.

Can the rights to food, water, health education, decent work, social security and the benefits of science prevail against market fundamentalism?

Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World is about the potential of these rights to contest the adverse impacts of neoliberal policy and practice on human wellbeing.

Cutting across several lines of human rights literature, the chapters address norm development, court decision making, policymaking, advocacy, measurement and social mobilization.

The analyses reveal that neoliberalism infiltrates management practices, changes international policy goals, flattens public school curriculum and distorts the outputs of UN human rights treaty bodies.

Are economic and social rights successful in challenging neoliberalism, are they simply marginalized or are they co-opted and incorporated into neoliberal frameworks?

This multidisciplinary work by a geographically diverse group of scholars and practitioners begins to address these questions.

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