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DISABLED PEOPLE, WORK AND WELFARE

Is employment really the answer?

Edited by Chris Grover and Linda Piggott

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44
(0)117 954 5940 e-mail pp-info@bristol.ac.uk www.policypress.co.uk

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756 e:sales@press.uchicago.edu www.press.uchicago.ed

Policy Press 2015

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ISBN 978-1-4473-1836-1 ePub
ISBN 978-1-4473-1837-8 Mobi

The right of Chris Grover and Linda Piggott to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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The statements and opinions contained within this publication are solely those of the editors and contributors and not of the University of Bristol or Policy Press. The University of Bristol and Policy Press disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any material published in this publication.

Policy Press works to counter discrimination on grounds of gender, race, disability, age and sexuality.

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List of abbreviations

ACA	Affordable Care Act
ADA	Americans with Disabilities Act
ADL	anti-discrimination legislation
AFDC	Aid to Families with Dependent Children
ALMP	active labour market policy
BSL	British Sign Language
DAB	Disability Assessment Board
DDA	Disability Discrimination Act
DHH	deaf or hard of hearing
DHSSPS	Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
DWP	Department for Work and Pensions
EN	Employer Network
ESA	Employment and Support Allowance
EU	European Union
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GP	general practitioner
IB	Incapacity Benefit
IWSC	Inner West Skills Centre
IWSP	In Work Support Project
JSA	Jobseekers Allowance
KRUS	Agricultural Social Insurance Fund
LBR	LokalBeskaeftelses Rad (local employment committee)
NDDP	New Deal for Disabled People
NDIS	National Disability Insurance Scheme
NGO	non-governmental organisation
NHS	National Health Service
NICE	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
npn	no page number
NWRN	National Welfare Rights Network
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PA	personal assistant
PLN	Polish Zloty
PRWORA	Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 1996
PtW	Pathways to Work
SFRDP	State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons
SG	support group
SII	Social Insurance Institution
SIMD	Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
SSDI	Social Security Disability Insurance
SSI	Supplemental Security Income
TTW	Ticket To Work
UI	unemployment insurance
UK	United Kingdom
UN	United Nations
UNCRPD	United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
UPIAS	Union of Physically Impaired Against Segregation
US	United States
VAE	Vocational Activity Enterprise
VAS	Visual Analogue Scale
WCA	Work Capability Assessment
WP	Work Programme
WRAG	work-related activity group

Notes on contributors

Clare Bambra is a Professor of Public Health Geography at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the social and political determinants of public health and health inequalities, with a particular focus on welfare and labour markets. She is author of Work, worklessness and the political economy of health (Oxford University Press, 2011). She holds a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, which investigates health inequalities in an age of austerity. She is the health inequalities lead of Fuse: The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health (funded by the Medical Research Council) and she is a member of the School for Public Health Research (funded by the National Institute for Health Research).

David Etherington is a Principal Researcher in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic and Development Research at Middlesex University, UK. He has been involved in developing research on comparative welfare and active labour market policy with a specific interest in the Danish and Nordic models. Other research interests include employment and skills policy, economic governance and social inclusion. David has undertaken research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and the European Commission. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Environment and Planning A, the Journal of European Social Policy and Work, Employment & Society. David is currently working on a research project on welfare reform and benefit conditionality in the UK.

Deborah Fenney is a postgraduate researcher in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK. Her doctoral research explores disabled peoples experiences of sustainable lifestyles through the concepts of environmental justice and environmental citizenship. Her research interests also include environmental and disability policy. Deborahs recent publications include Exceptions to the green rule? A literature investigation into the overlaps between the academic and UK policy fields of disability and the environment (

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