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Gender, Work and Social Control - A Century of Disability Benefits (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Gender, Work and Social Control - A Century of Disability Benefits (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the
meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hundred years
(1911-present). Nowadays, people claiming disability benefits must
undergo medical tests to assess whether or not they are capable of
work. Media reports and high profile campaigns highlight the
problems with this system and question whether the process is fair.
These debates are not new and, in this book, Jackie Gulland looks
at similar questions about how to assess people's capacity for work
from the beginning of the welfare state in the early 20th century.
Amongst many subject areas, she explores women's roles in the
domestic sphere and how these were used to consider their capacity
for work in the labour market. The book concludes that incapacity
benefit decision making is really about work: what work is, what it
is not, who should do it, who should be compensated when work does
not provide a sufficient income and who should be exempted from any
requirement to look for it.
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