【Modern Law Review】Welfare-to-Work, Structural Injustice and Human Rights
2021-06-08
| 期刊名：【Modern Law Review】Welfare-to-Work, Structural Injustice and Human Rights |
| 卷數：Volume83, Issue5 |
| 出版時間：2020年9月 |
| 作者：Virginia Mantouvalou |
| 出版者：The Modern Law Review Limited |
| I S S N：1468-2230 |
| 中文摘要： |
| 英文摘要：This article discusses welfare-to-work schemes, places schemes with strict conditionality in the theoretical framework of structural injustice, and argues that they may violate human rights law. Welfare-to-work schemes impose obligations on individuals to seek and accept work on the basis that otherwise they will be sanctioned by losing access to social support. The schemes are often presented as the best route out of poverty. However, the system in the UK, characterised by strict conditionality, coerces the poor and disadvantaged into precarious work, and conditions of in-work poverty. Forcing people to work in these conditions creates and sustains widespread and routine structures of exploitation. The article further argues that a framework of ‘state-mediated structural injustice’ is the best way of explaining the wrong. It finally claims that this injustice violates principles that are enshrined in human rights law, which the authorities have an obligation to examine and address. |
| 年份：2020 |