Disability, work and welfare
Disability, work and welfare
the disappearance of the polymorphic productive landscape
In this chapter the current crisis in welfare to work is explored by contextualising longer run developments in the way in which work has changed and been redefined. The chapter argues that what was once a range of diverse and localised work activity has in time, and with industrialisation, been increasingly associated work with paid employment. This it is argued has major significance for individuals whose bodies or intellect are non-standard in a standardised labour process. One of the key reasons contemporary and recent policy makers have struggled so much to connect disabled people with paid work opportunities are the long-held views which associated paid work with valued and valorised social activity largely undertaken by standard workers. The implications of the chapter are that even major efforts to get disabled people to fit the current definition of work will only be successful if there are clear and systematic efforts to challenge the nature and value system that underpins industrialised processes.
Keywords: crisis, disabled people, industrialisation, labour process, paid employment, welfare, work
Policy Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
