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Disablement in the informational age
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.619-636.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper article employment data from the USA and UK on the process of informationalisation, in order to ascertain if it is having a particular impact on the construction of disablement. It finds that disabled people are more likely to be excluded from employment in the informational sector and that the current reforms of welfare may remove some of the safety net provision that have been part of the hegemony of care established under industrialisation. It concludes by suggesting that social exclusion, which removes the notion of deservingness, may replace disability as a social process in the twenty-first century.
Factors affecting the use of information technology and computer systems as work aids for the physically handicapped
- Author:
- HOWEY K.R
- Publisher:
- University of Loughborough. HUSAT Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 40p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
A research project found that although new technology devices can assist a wide range of disabled people to improve their communication ability, many people do not receive the help they need because of economic, social and other factors.
In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: the case for a disability politics perspectives
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Liz, MOXON Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.241-258.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the introduction of telematics technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Britain and throughout the world, and which impact increasingly on the lives of disabled people. Argues that technology based services have been largely determined by the interests of care service professionals, technologists and the commercial sector. Missing from the debate has been the perspective of the disability movement, which challenges professional hegemony, and introduces important issues such as choice, control and access to the wider environment.
Connectivity or community?
- Author:
- MEREDITH Jenni
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 43, Autumn 1996, pp.7-10.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Looks at how new computer technology can create better job opportunities for people with disabilities.
Self-employment in Athens: the Telecentre project
- Authors:
- CHAPLIN John, KOULOURIS Christos, KATAMI Christelena
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 35, Autumn 1994, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
TELECENTRE in Athens is a small business run and owned by eight young people with special needs. The aim is not to provide employment for people who are disadvantaged in work. The aim is to provide professional new-technology office bureau services. It is the result of a three year European Horizon project that has shown the possibility of expanding the employment opportunities for young people with disabilities in Greece.
Employers' perceptions and practice in the employability of disabled people: a survey of companies in south east UK
- Author:
- STEVENS Geoff Ruggeri
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(7), December 2002, pp.779-796.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reports a foundation survey of the extent of employment of disabled people in three sectors of industry--transportation, IT and financial services--in two UK counties, identifies which specific disabilities and limitations on personal skills are seen by employers as the greatest impediments to employment, proposes a new model for analysis by using a modification of established recording models and provides a springboard for further work. The survey reported here was based on structured interviews with personnel officers conducted by telephone.
Sheltered and supported employment in the 1990s: the experiences of disabled workers in the UK
- Author:
- HYDE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.199-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how sheltered and supported employment are important areas of social policy provision for disabled people in the UK, but they have received little attention in the sociological literature on disability. This omission is addressed by developing a framework for understanding the state's employment policy for disabled people. It is argued that recent changes in sheltered and supported employment provision must be understood in the context of broader labour market restructuring. Concludes that an adequate approach to the employment needs of disabled people needs to go beyond micro-policy debates on the relative merits of existing employment programmes and, instead, engage at a broader level of societal change.
Inform '92: meeting the information needs of disabled people in Europe; International Conference Centre, Birmingham 13 and 14 October 1992
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 159p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: acceptable language in information provision; the National Disability Information Project; telephone information helplines; MENCAP's profound intellectual and multiple disabilities section; physical and attitudinal barriers to effective information provision; employment information for people with disabilities; the accessibility of public information in different European countries; the EC's Helios programme; Kent County Council and links between disabled people in Europe; methods of disseminating information; the Deaf Women's Health Project; the Asian People with Disabilities Alliance; information and visual impairment; advocacy and the law; the use and value of information technology; and travelling and tourism for all.