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Social work: disabled people and disabling environments
- Editor:
- OLIVER Michael
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 203p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Redefines the issue of disability as a social rather than an individual problem and considers the implications of this view for the provision of services and for social work practice. Looks at the experiences of people with disabilities in society, and the influence their organisations have had on service provision. Discusses the implications of this in a variety of different settings and across the life cycle.
The new politics of disablement
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 192p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
The purpose of this second edition is to continue the process of developing a social theory of disability in response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. This process is located within the experience of disabled people and their attempts not only to redefine disability but also to construct a political movement with the potential to contribute to the restructuring of a more equitable and just society fit for all, regardless of the nature and severity of impairment, age, gender, race or sexual preference. The book locates disability within the context of society and social organisations with particular emphasis on the working of the economy, politics and culture. Attention centres on the ways in which both impairment and disability are ‘produced’ as individual and medical problems within capitalist society at both the national and international levels.
Social work with disabled people
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, SAPEY Bob
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Introduction to social work with disabled people. Includes chapters on: old and new directions in social work with disability; thinking about disability; the causes of impairment and the creation of disability; disability in the family; living with disabilities; the legal and social context of disability; and some professional and organisational aspects of social work with disabled people.
Disabled people and social policy: from exclusion to inclusion
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 187p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Provides an introduction to key issues in disability and social policy which have emerged in the light of changing approaches towards disability over the last fifteen years. The concepts of exclusion and inclusion provide the central focus around which the book is organised. Examines the contradictions and dilemmas of state provided welfare; explores the definitions surrounding disability, the historical background to analysis and the development and implications of social policy for disabled people; analyses the social model of disability and the perceptions and attitudes surrounding the meaning of disability within contemporary society; explores the disabled people's movement and the focus on independent living; outlines policy options for empowering disabled people; and includes policy statements written by disabled people and their organisations, various international charters and documents emphasising the rights of disabled people and selected extracts from legislation and policy statements.
Moving on: from welfare paternalism to welfare citizenship (The Ungrateful Bastards)
- Author:
- OLIVER Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Considers fifty years of welfare state paternalism and the need for the disability rights movements.
Social work with disabled people
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, SAPEY Bob
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 218p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Introduction to social work with disabled people. Includes chapters on: old and new directions in social work with disability; thinking about disability; the causes of impairment and the creation of disability; disability in the family; living with disabilities; the legal and social context of disability; and some professional and organisational aspects of social work with disabled people
Understanding disability: from theory to practice
- Author:
- OLIVER Michael
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 218p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Collection of essays discussing recent and perennial issues concerned with disabled people. Interwoven with the authors personal experiences, he looks at citizenship, community care, social policy and welfare, education, rehabilitation, the politics of new social movements and the international context. The book is a personal exploration as well as an attempt to take further the theoretical understanding of disability.