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Human rights and global social policy
— In memory of Professor Peter Townsend (1928-2009) | | Author(s) | Nicola Yeates, Ted Schrecker, Ted Schrecker |
| Journal title | Global Social Policy, vol 10, no 2, August 2010 |
| Pages | pp 151-171 (Global Social Policy Forum) |
| Source | http://www.gsp.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Rights [elderly] ; Social security [generally] ; Social economics ; Trade Unions ; Social policy ; International. |
| Annotation | These six Global Social Policy Forum articles are dedicated to the memory of Professor Peter Townsend; he was a pioneer of global social policy as a field of study and research and a champion of human rights from the outset. In the 1960s, he was developing a global analysis of world poverty combining the insights of global sociology with those of development studies and social policy. This work was published in 'The concept of poverty' in 1970, where he set out an "approach to development and stratification [to explain] how poverty arises, and is perpetuated, in low-income and high-income countries'. It was this work that formed the basis for his theory of poverty, including the seminal 'Poverty in the UK' (1979). The authors take up many of the key themes and arguments in Townsend's work on global social policy dimensions of human rights. These six articles are: Introduction, Championing human rights for all; Human rights against the global marketplace; Building social floors for decent societies; Crisis, opportunity and the social protection floor; Business and human rights; and Is there such a thing as a fair and human rights-sensitive process of globalization? (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-100811201 A |
| Classmark | IKR: TYA: W4: WMA: TM2: 72 |
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