Themes in Disabled people, work and welfare
Themes in Disabled people, work and welfare
The conclusion draws together themes that are visible in the chapters of Work, welfare and disabled people. It focuses in particular upon three issues raised by the chapters: 1) the nature of wage work as a social process; 2) difficulties for disabled people that arise from the desire to commodify their labour power and 3) difficulties that there are in making the claim that wage work provides for disabled people both a secure and above-poverty level income. Overall, it is concluded that while Britain and other liberal welfare regimes continue to be rooted in concerns with access to social welfare benefits as particularly discouraging wage labour, disabled people face a future of economic precariousness, of greater poverty, even when in paid work.
Keywords: disabled people, economic precariousness, commodify, labour power, poverty, welfare benefits, wage work
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