Working futures? : : Disabled people, policy and social inclusion /

Working futures? : : Disabled people, policy and social inclusion / / ed. by Alan Roulstone, Colin Barnes.

Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability and employment policy, the book asks Is the dichotomy of 'work for those who can and support for t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Banks, Pauline,
Barnes, Colin,
Coleridge, Peter,
Corden, Anne,
Danieli, Ardha,
Gibbs, David,
Goodley, Dan,
Gradwell, Lorraine,
Grove, Bob,
Harris, Jennifer,
Hughes, Jeannine,
Hurstfield, Jennifer,
Lunt, Neil,
Meager, Nigel,
Mercer, Geof,
Morgan, Hannah,
Norouzi, Ghashem,
Pearson, Mark,
Prinz, Christopher,
Riddell, Sheila,
Roulstone, Alan,
Sapey, Bob,
Secker, Jenny,
Simkiss, Philippa,
Stafford, Bruce,
Stanley, Kate,
Thornton, Patricia,
Warren, Jon,
Woodhams, Carol,
HerausgeberIn:
Barnes, Colin,
Roulstone, Alan,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures, tables and boxes
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Working futures: disabled people, employment policy and social inclusion
  • Work, welfare and social inclusion: challenges, concepts and questions
  • The challenges of a work-first agenda for disabled people
  • The missing million: the challenges of employing more disabled people
  • The current policy environment
  • New Deal for Disabled People: what’s new about New Deal?
  • Disabled people, employment and the Work Preparation programme
  • Legislating for equality: evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
  • Disability frameworks and monitoring disability in local authorities: a challenge for the proposed Disability Discrimination Bill
  • Job retention: a new policy priority for disabled people
  • Benefits and tax credits: enabling systems or constraints?
  • Challenging the disability benefit trap across the OECD
  • Jobcentre Plus: can specialised personal advisers be justified?
  • Disability and employment: global and national policy influences in New Zealand, Canada and Australia
  • Disabled people and ‘employment’ in the majority world: policies and realities
  • Towards inclusive policy futures
  • Employment policy and practice: a perspective from the disabled people’s movement
  • Changing minds: opening up employment options for people with mental health problems
  • Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric
  • Barriers to labour market participation: the experience of Deaf and hard of hearing people
  • Work matters: visual impairment, disabling barriers and employment options
  • Disabled people and employment: the potential impact of European policy
  • Missing pieces: the voluntary and community sector’s potential for inclusive employment
  • Professional barriers and facilitators: policy issues for an enabling salariat
  • Disabled people, the state and employment: historical lessons and welfare policy
  • ‘Work’ is a four-letter word: disability, work and welfare
  • Conclusions
  • Index

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