Models of Disability, Work and Welfare in Australia

Humpage, Louise

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00549.x

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“…The primary strategy of industrialized welfare states has been an investment in employment readiness and training programs and anti-discrimination legislation (Grover & Piggott, 2007;Humpage, 2007). However, at the time of the UNCRPD's adoption, there existed substantial heterogeneity in the types of legal protections and service systems available to people with disabilities on a country-by-country basis.…”

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Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Saleh

Bruyère

2018

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Work is an important part of life, providing both economic security and a forum to contribute one's talents and skills to society, thereby anchoring the individual in a social role. However, access to work is not equally available to people with disabilities globally. Regulatory environments that prohibit discrimination and support vocational training and educational opportunities constitute a critical first step toward economic independence. However, they have not proven sufficient in themselves. In this article, we aim to infuse deeper consideration of employer practice and demand-side policy reforms into global policy discussions of the right to work for people with disabilities. We begin by documenting the employment and economic disparities existing for people with disabilities globally, followed by a description of the international, regional, and local regulatory contexts aiming to improve labor market outcomes for people with disabilities. Next, we examine how policies can leverage employer interests to further address inequalities. We discuss employer policies and practices demonstrated in the research to facilitate recruitment, hiring, career development, retention, and meaningful workplace inclusion. The goal of the article is to synthesize existing international literature on employment rights for people with disabilities with the employer perspective.

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Section: Approaches To Implementationmentioning

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Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Saleh

Bruyère

2018

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“…Social inclusion, which gives relevance to equal social participation of all people, unveils the variety of problems, obligations and commitments. L. Humpage (2007) stated that ever since Australia started basing the disability politics on social approach to this phenomenon, the number of people claiming support started growing as well as areas of life, in which society had to undertake the responsibility for the satisfaction of special needs. In the meantime, the country saw a significant growth in involvement of the number of people with disabilities involved in the open or adjusted labour markets.…”

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“…Substantiating the disability theory, M. Oliver (1984) used the term "personal tragedy", which reflects disability as a personal problem of an individual. L. Humpage (2007) related outcomes of Medical Model application for disability to entrenchment of the institutionalisation phenomenon in society. Industrialisation that postulates productivity of activities as the standard for the quality of life urges people with disabilities to create their separate space of life that fits their abilities.…”

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Internalisation of Disability as a Social Phenomenon in the Reality of Inclusive Education

Galkienė

2016

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Abstract. Otherness of students that alters their aesthetical appearance, reduces physical abilities or limits cognitive potential may determine the difference in levels of individuals and different nature of interpersonal relationships. The research aimed at finding the answer to the question: What attitudes of educators and inclusively educated students result in internalised conception of disability as a social phenomenon?

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“…Informed by a mix of neoliberal economics and neoconservative nationalism (Maddison and Martin 2010), the Howard government signalled that paid work was the primary duty of Australian citizens (Bessant 2000). As Humpage (2007) suggests, the duty to work was to be enforced through the idea of 'mutual obligations', of what in the UK was described as 'rights and responsibilities'. In pursuit of this, the Howard Government adopted a 'work first' approach (Marston and McDonald 2007).…”

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Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain

Grover

Soldatić

2013

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This paper examines recent social security policies in Australia and the UK for workless disabled people. The paper outlines developments in both countries over the past two decades and points to the fact that while there may be differences in the detail, the trends in such policies in the two countries are similar. This involves moves towards stricter eligibility criteria, greater expectation of workless disabled people to make efforts to (re)enter paid employment and, through such processes, a redrawing of the 'disability category' that denotes the 'truly' disabled from those who are deemed capable of doing at least some paid work. The paper goes on to consider explanations of such change, arguing that liberal explanations in the social administration tradition are problematic and that they, therefore, need to be placed within the neoliberal project, in particular its concern with putting people to work. The paper concludes that this has essentially involved a redrawing of the disability category to ensure a smaller number of people of working age in both countries can legitimately claim an existence outside of paid work. The paper also argues that more comparative research is required to understand the impacts of such trends on disabled people and provide insights for those resisting the influence of neoliberalism on welfare regimes.

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Models of Disability, Work and Welfare in Australia

Abstract: In discourse around disability there has been a shift away from a 'medical model ', which

Cited by 52 publications

References 13 publications

Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Leveraging Employer Practices in Global Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Internalisation of Disability as a Social Phenomenon in the Reality of Inclusive Education

Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain

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