Economic Rights

Shareen Hertel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut and holds a joint appointment with the university's Human Rights Institute. She has served as a consultant to foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America and South Asia. She is the author of Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists (2006), co-editor of Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and has published numerous scholarly articles. Hertel is incoming editor of The Journal of Human Rights and serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Review, Human Rights and Human Welfare, and the International Studies Intensives book series of Paradigm Publishers.

This book assesses economic rights and explains their evolution, measurement, and implementation internationally.

Foreword; Introduction: 1. Economic rights: the terrain Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minkler; Part I. Concepts: 2. The West and economic rights Jack Donnelly; 3. A needs-based approach to social and economic rights Wiktor Osiatynski; 4. Economic rights in the knowledge economy: an instrumental justification Albino Barrera; 5. 'None so poor that he is compelled to sell himself': democracy, subsistence, and basic income Michael Goodhart; 6. Benchmarking the right to work Philip Harvey; Part II. Measurement: 7. The status of efforts to monitor economic, social, and cultural rights Audrey R. Chapman; 8. Measuring the progressive realization of economic and social rights Clair Apodaca; 9. Economic rights, human development effort, and institutions Mwangi Samson Kimenyi; 10. Measuring government effort to respect economic and social human rights: a peer benchmark David L. Cingranelli and David L. Richards; 11. Government respect for women's economic rights: a cross-national analysis, 1981¿2003 Shawna E. Sweeney; Part III. Policy Issues: 12. Economic rights and extraterritorial obligations Sigrun I. Skogly and Mark Gibney; 13. Millenium development goal 8: can it be an accountability framework for international human rights obligations? Sakiko Fukuda-Parr; 14. The United States and international economic rights: law, social reality, and political choice David Forsythe; 15. Public policy and economic rights in Ghana and Uganda Susan Dicklitch and Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann; 16. Human rights as instruments of emancipation and economic development Kaushik Basu; 17. Worker rights and economic development: the cases of occupational safety and health and child labor Peter Dorman.