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Mantouvalou, Virginia. (2020) 'Welfare鈥恡o鈥怶ork, Structural Injustice and Human Rights',听Modern Law Review,听1-26, available online:听

Summary

This article discusses welfare鈥恡o鈥恮ork schemes, places schemes with strict conditionality in the theoretical framework of structural injustice, and argues that they may violate human rights law. Welfare鈥恡o鈥恮ork 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鈥恮ork 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 鈥榮tate鈥恗ediated structural injustice鈥� 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.

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