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Disability, work, and welfare: challenging the social exclusion of disabled people
- Authors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 19(3), September 2005, pp.527-545.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people’s exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people’s movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people’s exclusion from the workplace is provided. It is argued that analyses of work and disability have failed to address in sufficient depth or breadth the various social and environmental barriers that confront disabled people. It is suggested that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people’s perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
Disability policy and practice: applying the social model
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 216p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains thirteen chapters on the application of social model inspired thinking to social policy in Britain. The contributors raise a range of important issues and concerns central to theorising and researching disability policy and practice spanning employment, housing, higher education with examples from England, Scotland, and Wales, social ‘care’, independent living and leisure and social relations. Together they provide ample evidence of the continuing relevance of debates emanating from the social model of disability within disability studies and related disciplines. This book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, professionals, disabled people and lay audiences with an interest in disability issues and the on going struggle for a more equitable and just society.
Doing disability research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Looks at key issues and problems in translating disability theory into research. Questions addressed include: breaking the researcher-researched hierarchy; involving disabled people; ownership and control; disability research funding; measuring disability barriers; research and the survivors' movement; narrative approaches; researching sexuality, multiple oppression, abuse and violence; and researching disability in non-European contexts.