Is Not Enough Enough?

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Research Article| March 01 2020 Is Not Enough Enough? Alice Kessler-Harris Alice Kessler-Harris ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS recently retired from teaching at Columbia University. Her most recent publications include Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity, coedited with Maurizio Vaudagna, and a new, updated edition of Women Have Always Worked. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2020) 17 (1): 95–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962828 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alice Kessler-Harris; Is Not Enough Enough?. Labor 1 March 2020; 17 (1): 95–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962828 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search I want to suggest that we understand the modern limits and strengths of human rights by acknowledging the fundamental tension within the movement around the role of the state. The human rights movement has incorporated an effort both to restrain the power of the state to oppress, imprison, and otherwise coerce opposition and to demand an ever-changing plate of social rights that enable individual freedoms. The first goal has required advocates to restrain the arbitrary powers of the nation-state, even bringing down oppressive states to ensure the safety of individuals. The second has depended on the active engagement of the state and the goodwill of citizens to ensure a reasonable distribution of resources to ensure human well-being. We might roughly analogize these to Isaiah Berlin’s negative and positive freedoms: the first limits the power of the state to coerce; the second... Copyright © 2020 Labor and Working-Class History Association2020 Issue Section: Bookmark: Samuel Moyn’s Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World You do not currently have access to this content.