The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: Responding to Complex Global Challenges

Foreword by Sandra Liebenberg\nAcknowledgements\nContents\nNotes on Contributors\n1. Introduction: Situating the Right to Continuous Improvement\rof Living Conditions and Considering its Interpretations\rand Applications\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Situating the Right\n	III. Organising Themes and Emerging Ideas\n	IV. Unanswered Questions and Future Research Agendas\n2. Sources for a Nascent Interpretation of the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: The Travaux Préparatoires\rand the Work of the CESCR\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Sources for Interpreting the Right in International Law\n	III. Conclusion: Toward a Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n3. Cooperating to Continuously Improve\n	I. Introduction\n	II. The Contentious Duty to Cooperate in ICESCR\n	III. The Practice of Monitoring Cooperation\n	IV. Conclusion: Continuously Improving Cooperation\n4. The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Response to Poverty\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Poverty, Extreme Poverty and Living Conditions\n	III. Poverty Eradication: A Limit on Continuity?\n	IV. Prioritising the Impoverished\n	V. Poverty and the Subject Matter of the Right\n	VI. Poverty Eradication Measures as Improving the Living Conditions of All in Society\n	VII. Conclusion\n5. Is Financial Inclusion a Proxy for Continuously Improving Living Conditions?\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Financial Capitalism\n	III. Households\' Debt\n	IV. A Typology of Debts\n	V. Household Debt and the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	VI. Concluding Remarks\n6. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\rand Progressive Realisation: The Case of the Right to Social\rSecurity in Canada\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Social Rights, Human Needs and the Right to Social Security: Understanding the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Meta Right\n	III. The Recent Creation and Rapid Transformation of a Canadian Social Protection Regime: Transformative or Regressive?\n	IV. Looking for a Contemporary Reading of Obligations Under the ICESCR: From the Adequate Allocation of Resources to More Resources\n	V. Conclusion\n7. Understanding Forgotten Rights\n	I. Introduction\n	II. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Forgotten Right\n	III. Overcoming the Challenges Facing the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	IV. Conclusion\n8. The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Human Rights of Future Generations – A Circle Impossible to Square?\n	I. Introduction\n	II. The Understanding of the \'Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\' as a Human Right\n	III. Human Rights of Future Generations\n	IV. Tensions between the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Human Rights of Future Generations\n	V. Concluding Remarks\n9. New Synergies and Possibilities in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: From Dignified Life to the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Dignified Life as a Departure Point for the Right to Continous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	III. Direct Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights and the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: Synergies\n	IV. Conclusion\n10. (Dis)Continuous Improvement: Canada, Indigenous Peoples,\rLobster and Child Welfare\n	I. Overview\n	II. Case Study No 1 – R v Marshall\n	III. Case Study No 2  – Caring Society ET AL v Attorney General of Canada\n	IV. Conclusion\n11. The Work of Living: Social Reproduction and the Right\rto the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Social Reproduction\n	III. Ideas from Recent Manifestoes to inform the Development of the Right\n	IV. Interpreting the ICESCR\n	V. Conclusion: Continuous Improvement and Utopian Process\n12. Measure for Measure: The Challenges of Measuring\rContinuous Improvement and Lessons from the Sustainable\rDevelopment Goals\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Defining Goals and Measuring Progress: The SDGS and the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	III. From Quantity to Quality: The SDGS and the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions\n	IV. Conclusion\n13. Entangled Rights and Reproductive Temporality: Legal Form,\rContinuous Improvement of Living Conditions, and\rSocial Reproduction\n	I. Introduction: On Rights-Work as Legal Reproduction\n	II. Social Reproduction, Materiality and Continuous Time\n	III. The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Multiple Normative Commitment to Timeliness\n	IV. The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Collection of Material Resources for Time\n	V. The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Felt Arrangement of Temporality\n	VI. Conclusion: Entangled Legal Forms\nIndex