This article discusses welfare‐to‐work schemes, places schemes with strict conditionality in the theoretical framework of structural injustice, and argues that they may violate human rights law. Welfare‐to‐work schemes impose obligations on individuals to seek and accept work on the basis that otherwise they will be sanctioned by losing access to social support. The schemes are often presented as the best route out of poverty. However, the system in the UK, characterised by strict conditionality, coerces the poor and disadvantaged into precarious work, and conditions of in‐work poverty. Forcing people to work in these conditions creates and sustains widespread and routine structures of exploitation. The article further argues that a framework of ‘state‐mediated structural injustice’ is the best way of explaining the wrong. It finally claims that this injustice violates principles that are enshrined in human rights law, which the authorities have an obligation to examine and address.

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工作福利，结构性不公正与人权

本文讨论了福利到工作计划，将具有严格条件的计划置于结构性不公正的理论框架中，并认为这些计划可能违反人权法。福利到工作计划规定个人有义务寻求和接受工作，否则他们将因无法获得社会支持而受到制裁。这些计划通常被认为是摆脱贫困的最佳途径。但是，英国的制度以严格的条件为特征，迫使穷人和处境不利的人从事不稳定的工作和工作中的贫穷状况。强迫人们在这些条件下工作会创造并维持广泛的常规剥削结构。文章进一步指出，“国家调节的结构性不公正”框架是解释错误的最好方法。