ABSTRACT
It was observed in the last chapter that rights to social security are generally predicated upon assumptions about people's duties to maintain themselves. This is implicit, not only in British social legislation, but in the UN declaration itself, which also says, 'Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection' (Article 23[3]). While the right to work has not been translated into British social policy, the assumptions of this last mentioned clause have been:
• The existence of individuals and families is assumed normally to be ensured through remuneration obtained by 'work'.
