Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre Blog
What the French Revolution Reveals about Modern Struggles over Social Rights
In recent decades, it has become common for human-rights scholars to refer to social rights – such as those to work, welfare, education and healthcare – as 鈥榮econd generation rights鈥�, as twentieth-century 鈥榮ocialist鈥� additions to the 鈥榣iberal鈥� corpus of civil and political rights bequeathed by Age of Democratic Revolutions of the eighteenth century.