Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Looking at Ourselves -- Part I. Philosophy, Law, and Politics of Economic Rights -- Chapter 1. Justifying Socioeconomic Rights -- Chapter 2. International Law of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A U.S.Perspective -- Chapter 3. On the Margins of the Human Rights Discourse: Foreign Policy and International Welfare Rights -- Part II. Poverty -- Chapter 4. Homelessness in Canada and the United States -- Chapter 5. Welfare Racism and Human Rights -- Chapter 6. The Movement to End Poverty in the United States -- Part III. Contentious and Emerging Issues -- Chapter 7. So Close and Yet So Different: The Right to Health Care in the United States and Canada -- Chapter 8. International Labor Rights and North American Labor Law -- Chapter 9. Deconstructing Barriers: The Promise of Socioeconomic Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada -- Chapter 10. The Economic Rights of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada and the United States -- Part IV. A European Comparison -- Chapter 11. The Netherlands: A Walhalla of Economic and Social Rights? -- Appendices -- 1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- 2. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941 -- 3. Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, January 11, 1944 -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.