Grover, Chris and Piggott, Linda A. (2005) Disabled people, the reserve army of labour and welfare reform. Disability & Society, 20 (7). pp. 705-717. ISSN 1360-0508
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This paper is concerned with explaining why in contemporary society there has been a number of changes to income maintenance and labour market policy for disabled people. Taking a regulation approach theoretical framework it engages with the debate about whether disabled people can be considered to be part of the reserve army of labour. Rejecting previous broad-brush approaches that seem to suggest that all disabled people are part of the reserve army, it argues that the policy changes have been aimed at reconstructing non-employed disabled people as an important part of the reserve army in a period when labour markets are becoming tighter. In this sense disabled people are crucial to New Labour's regulation of neo-liberal accumulation that is structured through a contradiction between economic stability and increasing participation in paid employment.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Disability & Society |
| Additional Information: | 50% contribution RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Social Work and Social Policy & Administration |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Applied Social Science Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Educational Research |
| ID Code: | 3265 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer |
| Deposited On: | 25 Mar 2008 09:25 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2013 13:41 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/3265 |
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