Chak Kwan Chan

Human Dignity and Welfare Systems

Buch

Pro-'workfare' governments justify their policies by claiming 'workfare' helps enhance self-esteem and promotes the dignity of unemployed recipients. On the other hand, welfare activists argue that 'workfare' suppresses the dignity of unemployed persons. This book examines the concept of human dignity in this context and attempts to clarify its meaning. Human Dignity and Welfare Systems provides a framework for evaluating the dignity of welfare recipients and uses this framework to explore the dignity of unemployed persons in four different welfare systems: UK, Sweden, China and Hong Kong. It compares the conditions of human dignity in each c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bowpitt, Graham

ISBN: 978-1-86134-431-1
EAN: 9781861344311
Produktnummer: 4008775
Verlag: Policy Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.0 cm
Abbildungen: No
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Chak Kwan Chan is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Before that, he was Associate Professor at Macau Polytechnic and Post-doctoral Fellow at Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are social security, poverty and Christian welfare practices. Graham Bowpitt is Social Policy Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has obtained various research grants for evaluating Sure Start and the services of the Children's Fund. His main research areas are Christian welfare ideologies, homelessness and evaluating strategies for tackling social exclusion.