Marshall theorized rights as progressing from economic to political to social.

Evidence

Rights, Marshall argued, had been acquired by the populace in historical stages: first economic, then political. The time had now come for the achievement of social rights. He meant that it was now possible and indeed necessary to consolidate and deepen the welfare state: not only through strengthening the social “safety net” but through inclusion, through the institution of far-reaching social democracy. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 250

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Summarizes T.H. Marshall’s staged theory of citizenship rights, a framework the book builds on.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does Marshall’s social-rights stage map onto the book’s own proposal for racial democracy in the following pages?