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Curing the Dutch disease: an international perspective on disability policy reform
- Editors:
- AARTS Leo J.M., BURKHAUSER Richard V., DE JONG Philip R.
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 183p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Comparative study evaluating Dutch disability policies from the 1970s onwards. Experts from Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States go on to use the evaluation framework to compare policies in their own countries.
A comparative study of social policy transfer: the adoption of anti-discrimination policy in the United Kingdom and Australia
- Author:
- LIGHTFOOT Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Journal, 1(4), 2002, pp.5-21.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
Both the United Kingdom and Australia engaged in social policy transfer of anti-discrimination policy for people with disabilities in the 1990s with the adoption of new legislation whose structure and approach originated in the United States a decade earlier. This paper focuses on the extent of the convergence of disability policies between each country and the USA, and the variables that affected social policy transfer in each nation. By using a comparative approach, this paper allows for a better understanding of the processes and constraints involved in transferring social policy across nations. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
The social model of disability: Europe and the majority world
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof, eds.
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 218p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Over the last three decades disability activists and writers have advocated the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of orthodox academic and administrative approaches to the understanding and development of social policy for disabled people. This book contains thirteen chapters on the application of social model inspired thinking outside Britain. Contributors include academics, activists and practitioners. They raise several important issues and concerns central to theorising and applying social model insights to 'developed' and majority world countries. Examples include emerging debates within the European Union, including transport, law and citizenship, with case studies of France, Sweden and Disabled Peoples' International. Focus on the majority world covers human rights and development strategies, user led initiatives and community based rehabilitation with case studies of Bangladesh and Egypt.
Welfare to work in practice: social security and participation in economic and social life
- Editors:
- SAUNDERS Peter, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 261p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book brings together some of the leading experts to discuss the rationale for welfare to work policies, their limitations and problems encountered in practice. Contributors address topics ranging from the linkages between social security and the labour market to how the welfare to work agenda is responding to the needs of special groups such as lone parents, the long-term unemployed and those with a disability. The book puts the arguments and ideas that underlie the new welfare reform agenda under the microscope and explains how it is being implemented in an international context. Several new data sets are analyzed in a collection that covers developments in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Norway, the UK and the US, as well as several comparative studies. In doing so, this volume helps to bridge the gap between research and policy and demonstrates how policy can respond to the challenges it faces.
No wheelchairs beyond this point: a historical examination of wheelchair access in the Twentieth Century in Britain and America
- Authors:
- WATSON Nick, WOODS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.97-105.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
On the surface, the wheelchair appears a simple machine: its function seemingly apparent and its workings relatively uncomplicated. Yet, despite this apparent simplicity, the wheelchair is a complex artefact imbued with a myriad of social as well as technical relations that act simultaneously to exclude and include, confine and liberate, shape and be shaped. The wheelchair's inextricable links to injury and illness have certainly shaped its definition as a medical device. Such a definition has labelled the occupier as passive or ill and shaped a wider understanding of the machine as a prison. Wheelchair users, however, perceive the machine as a means to independence: it enables rather than disables. We present evidence here to suggest that this is not a recent phenomenon as we show how wheelchair access has been on the political agenda for disabled people for most of the twentieth century. The paper also examines the role of the wheelchair in the development of this movement, and we suggest that, as the design of the wheelchair improved, so the demand for better access increased. The final section of the paper looks at how poorly the state and its agents understood the issue of access.
Supported employment and people with complex needs: a review of research literature and ongoing research
- Author:
- WESTON Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 2(1), April 2002, pp.83-104.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This paper uses research from American, Australasian and UK-based perspectives to examine supported employment as an enabling strategy to support disabled people with complex needs to access mainstream employment. Supported employment is analysed in the context of models of disability and employment policy. Factors underlying and hindering successful provision are identified from research. Supported employment is successfully supporting some people with complex needs into mainstream employment. However, aspects of employment policy, the benefits system, a lack of funding, and geographical variation in provision act as barriers to success. The implications of supported employment for people with complex needs are identified for social services and social work departments.
Strategies to promote the retention of disabled workers in eight countries
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 53, Spring 1999, pp.7-10.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Discusses job retention policy of policy makers and rehabilitation service providers in Western Europe to prevent people losing their jobs unnecessarily because of illness, injury or disability.
The employment of people with disabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises
- Author:
- CARPENTER Morgan
- Publisher:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 149p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Comparative study, based on company case studies from six EU member states, of people with disabilities working in small and medium sized companies. Looks at: the legislative framework; employee characteristics; employer and workplace related characteristics; and mediating organisations. Concludes with sections on policy implications and recommendations.
Helping disabled people at work
- Author:
- McGINNIS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 48, Winter 1997, pp.11-14.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Presents some of the key findings from the recently published report, 'Helping disabled people to work: a cross-national study of social security and employment provisions'. The report looks at the UK in comparison with Australia, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Rethinking youth transitions: policy transfer and new exclusions in New Labour's New Deal
- Author:
- FERGUSSON Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 23(3/4), September 2002, pp.173-190.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The central argument of this paper is that the policies developed by New Labour to tackle social exclusion amongst young people in particular are aligned with US workfare policies. In being so aligned they disclose the neo-liberal 'drivers' of reform which mark New Labour's understanding of social exclusion as a distinct rupture with the European social exclusion tradition. Through reviews of the effects of welfare-to-work programmes, and of independent evaluations of the New Deal for Young People (NDYP), the paper suggests that its impact upon exclusion, even in its narrower senses, is limited. It goes on to query some fundamental assumptions about how young people are understood to make 'transitions' into financial independence as employees, looking both at persistent inequalities, notably of race, class and disability, and at new forms of inequality that depend, in much more complex ways, on how young people are able (or unable) to use their powers as students, part-time workers and members of social groups, to adapt to changing and highly locally variable market conditions. These trends, it is argued, may explain take-up and outcome patterns in NDYP. The paper concludes that there is a serious question as to whether it can ever 'lift' the most marginalized groups out of exclusion.