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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. Why Social Justice?
Authors : Francine Mestrum, Meena Menon
Published in: Redefining the Agenda for Social Justice
Publisher: Springer Singapore
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Abstract
The corona crisis also has a silver lining: never before has the need for a comprehensive social protection been so clear. It now becomes somewhat easier to defend welfare states, which came about one century ago through a long history of social struggles. In the South, though, they remained very imperfect and incomplete. During the past decades, they were hollowed out by neoliberal policies changing their fundamental philosophy of ‘protection’ into ‘activation’ for labour markets. All international organisations, from the World Bank to the European Union now defend social protection as a production factor, at the service of markets and mainly in favour of the poor. They do not exclude privatisations and deregulations.