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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.
Making our own choices: independent living, personal assistance and disabled people: report of the BCODP seminar on independent living and personal assistance, Herewood College, Coventry, August 1992
- Editor:
- BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- British Council of Organisations of Disabled People
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 90p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belper