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six Disability Introduction Social citizenship rights have never been fully extended to disabled people and, as a result of this, disabled people are over-represented among the unemployed and experience higher rates of poverty and in general do not enjoy a standard of living that is comparable with current social expectations. Over time there has been an uneasy relationship between healthcare professionals and disabled people. Professional social work has operated from a framework that encourages paternalism and dependency as part of an individualised
119 8Disability Practice scenario kate is a 31-year-old woman with a degenerative condition that necessitates using a wheelchair. She lives in the family home with her mother and brother in a rural area. Her mother works part-time as a cleaner and her brother stacks shelves in the nearby supermarket. Her benefits bring her a greater income than either her mother or brother earn and she feels guilty about this. the family have no transport. She has recently come out to her social worker as lesbian but she does not want her family to know. Her condition
117 8 Meta-narratives of disability1 Authored with Mary-Dan Johnston In his book of the same title, Marshall Gregory discusses how we are shaped by stories. For Gregory, what is at stake in the stories that we hear is the way stories construct the world, the way stories invite responses and the way that stories exert shaping pressure, because ‘both the “knowledge” offered by stories and our seldom denied responses constitute kinds of practice, modes of clarification and sets of habits for living that, once configured and repeatedly reinforced, accompany us
41 FOUR transitions for young people with learning disabilities Gillian MacIntyre introduction This chapter will explore the nature of transition from childhood to adulthood for one particularly vulnerable group of young people – those with learning disabilities. It will outline their experiences of transition before examining policy responses in relation to these experiences. The process of transition has become increasingly complex for all young people. This can be ascribed to structural factors such as the collapse of the youth labour market, increased
119 9 Long-term illness and disability: inequalities compounded Barbara Fawcett Introduction ‘Disability’ is a wide-ranging concept which generates varying interpretations. In countries such as the UK, the US, Canada and Australia, it has been used to describe and also to challenge the socially created disadvantage and discrimination that people with physical or emotional impairments or illnesses face. In parts of Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Asia, situations of extreme poverty and the lack of adequate resources make daily survival the prime
29 Disability activism and the struggle for independent living THREE Disability activism and the struggle for independent living Introduction Through the last quarter of the 20th century, disabled people developed a remarkable challenge to the dominant understanding of disability. It has involved the politicisation of disability with the setting up of many new grass-roots organisations around the country, the involvement of an increasing number of disabled people in campaigning activities, and the production of a crucial body of writings by disabled people and
203 Chapter 10: Mind the gap: people with disabilities and substance use Introduction The move from institutional care to community care that took hold in the UK in the 1980s raised concerns about the increase in the number of potentially vulnerable and/or disabled people exposed to the risks and opportunities of community living. Among these was the concern that substance use, and problematic use in particular, would increase. Whether these concerns were realised is still to be determined. In 2010, the UKDPC (Beddoes et al 2010) highlighted the gap in
63 SIX Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1 Peter Saunders Introduction The Australian economy has experienced over 13 consecutive years of strong economic growth, following extensive deregulation of its financial, product and labour markets. Throughout this period, the Commonwealth government has tightened its targeting of income transfers and relied increasingly on competitive tendering between government and non-government agencies to deliver its social programmes, leading the world in many of its reform
47 FOUR Implementing the social model of disability – after the honeymoon Movements with objectives for social change may have to face up to the dilemmas of success as well as the need to adapt to changing circumstances. If a movement is built on opposition what happens when the ideas it seeks to promote start to become accepted into mainstream thinking? Feminists working in the Women’s Refuge Movement, for example, had to make decisions about their preparedness to work within State institutions once the reality of male violence had been accepted as a legitimate
This book presents a novel interpretation of the nature, causes and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labour market. Employing a sophisticated new theoretical framework, and drawing on original fieldwork, the book develops a subtle account of the phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to existing approaches.
In an environment increasingly defined by attempts to converge and consolidate international policy objectives, an in-depth understanding of contemporary forms of inequality is vital to anyone interested in the effective translation of normative accounts of social justice into practical policy. Aimed at academics and advanced students working in social policy, sociology and political science, as well as policy makers, this book makes an important contribution to knowledge and debate in the field.
