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Working futures?: disabled people, policy and social inclusion
- Editors:
- ROULSTONE Alan, BARNES Colin, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 346p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. The book brings together a wide range of policy insights to bear on the question of disabled peoples working futures. It includes analyses of recent policy initiatives as diverse as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Draft Disability Bill, the benefits system, New Deal for Disabled People, job retention policy, comparative disability policy, the role of the voluntary sector and 'new policies for a new workplace'. Contributions from academics, NGOs, the OECD and the disabled peoples' movement bring multiple theoretical, professional and user perspectives to the debates at the heart of the book.
Applying a barriers approach to monitoring disabled people's employment: implications for the Disability Discrimination Act 2005
- Authors:
- ROULSTONE Alan, WARREN Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(2), March 2006, pp.115-131.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The year 2005 witnessed the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 through Parliament. The Act responds in part to the perceived need for more proactive legislation that seeks to encourage good employer and service provider practice from the outset and diminish discriminatory action. This article focuses on the employment provisions of the 2005 Act. The article is based on a scoping study carried out during the gestation of the Act that looks at the challenges of applying a barriers approach to a disability employment monitoring schemes. Monitoring schemes have been a key part of recent anti-discriminatory legislation. The text of the Act and its Guidance might suggest that the future of monitoring as an explicit feature of proactive employer practice is uncertain. The article makes clear however the importance of disability employment monitoring if disabled people are to be better represented and receive equitable treatment in the workplace.
Disability, dependency and the New Deal for disabled people
- Author:
- ROULSTONE Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(3), May 2000, pp.427-443.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The emergence of the 'New Deal' and its attendant claim to be part of a new political and social future based on the 'third way' seems to offer formerly excluded people new horizons for social inclusion. This article provides a critical exploration of the likely impact of the 'New Deal' for disabled people. The article contextualises the 'New Deal' in the wider ideology and rhetoric of 'Welfare at Work'. In doing so, it highlights similarities between 'New Deal', 'Welfare at Work' and the victim blaming ideas which characterised discussions of a growing 'social underclass' in the 1980's. In this way, its ideological underpinnings may simply reaffirm disabled people's economic and social dependency.
Thriving and surviving at work: disabled people's employment strategies
- Authors:
- ROULSTONE Alan, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 45p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
An assessment of how employed disabled people get and keep paid work. Previous studies of disabled people and employment have focused on barriers to gaining and maintaining employment. This report asks how disabled people already in employment get and keep paid work. The report: details the ways in which disabled people ‘thrive and survive’ at work; exposes the difficulties disabled people face working in environments designed by and for non-disabled people; looks at the policy context; draws on experiences related by disabled people; and examines issues that are important to disabled workers.
Disabling pasts, enabling futures? How does the changing nature of capitalism impact on the disabled worker and jobseeker?
- Author:
- ROULSTONE Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(6), October 2002, pp.627-642.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The important shift to new social movements in progressing identity and social rights including disability rights, may have overlooked the monumental, but not irreversible loss of power in the enabling state and of old social movements. The article offers a starting point in our understanding of the changing nature of employment, its likely impact on disabled people, whilst asking for a reappraisal of the possible links between old and new social movements