‘Because<i>they</i>have all the power and I have none’: state restructuring of income and employment supports and disabled women's lives in Ontario, Canada

Chouinard, Vera; Crooks, Valorie A.

doi:10.1080/0968759042000283610

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“…Though disabled women are constantly moving through a diverse range of helping spaces and places [15,38,85], there is limited academic understanding of the ways in which respectability mediates gendered class (dis)abled relations. We would suggest that this is likely due to the lack of interest in the class stratification of disability within the field itself.…”

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“…Qualifications for disability entitlements have been central to the global restructuring of neoliberal workfare [14][15][16][17][18]. Australia has been both leader and follower in these global trends; indeed, since the late 1990s there has been a plethora of strategies implemented to reduce the number of people accessing the central disability payment-the Disability Support Pension, or DSP [19].…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Australian Disability Workfare Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class and Gender in Spaces of Workfare

Soldatić

Meekosha

2012

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This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in the Australian state. As global social policy has been restructured along neoliberal lines in Western nations, the notion of ‗workfare' has been widely promulgated. This paper draws on nine case studies from across Australia to explore how this has resulted in disabled women being coerced to participate in a range of workfare programs that are highly bureaucratised, sanitised and moralised. The findings suggest that with the advent of Australian neoliberal welfare reform, some disabled women are increasingly framed in negative affective terms. A primary emotion that appears to govern disabled women forced to participate in Australian neoliberal workfare programs is disgust. The experience of the participants interviewed for this study suggests that the naming of them in negative emotional terms requires disabled women to perform a respectable unruly corporeality to ensure that they gain and maintain access to a range of services and supports, which are vital to their wellbeing.Keywords: disability; gender; class; disgust; respectability; welfare reformWe are scapegoated ... you are sucking the government money, justify it by working. The implication is that we are not working because it's our choice rather than the reality-where we are not working because there is no structure in, there is prejudice out there. It is basically bullying people who can't fight back and taking OPEN ACCESS

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Section: Neoliberalism and Australian Disability Workfare Spacesmentioning

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The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class and Gender in Spaces of Workfare

Soldatić

Meekosha

2012

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“…In Canada, for example, politicians have frequently advocated the need for reduced, rather than increased levels of funding for people with disabilities based on the justification that these individuals need to find their own personal support networks to solve such problems as poverty and unemployment (Chouinard & Crooks, 2005).…”

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Serious leisure and people with intellectual disabilities: benefits and opportunities

2009

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Can people with intellectual disabilities use serious leisure activities in a similar context to people without disabilities as a substitute for their paid work? In the past, western societies have tended to devalue people with disabilities, and as a consequence they were less likely to have valued social roles through paid work. However, for many people with disabilities, serious leisure should be valued as it encourages active participation in either formal group structures, or informal networks of devotees, for the sharing of common leisure interests as an amateur, hobbyist or volunteer. This study has used a qualitative methodology incorporating semi-structured interviews with a small purposive sample of adults with disabilities who were living independently in the community. They were selected as prospective respondents by key staff in several disability service agencies in Brisbane, Australia, because of their successful participation in community-based leisure activities that were classified as 'serious'. The results of this study found that people with disabilities have the ability to participate in serious leisure activities and to successfully engage at such a level so as to enable them to develop increased levels of confidence, skills and selfesteem.

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“…Other forms are being denied accommodation and denied work-related benefits. This points to challenges of negative public attitudes and actions (Burge, Ouellette, Kuntz, & Lysaght, 2007;Canada, 2013;McCreath, 2011), barriers to employment searches (Cohen, Goldberg, Istvanffy, Stainton, Wask, & Woods, 2008), unequal power relations (Chouinard & Crooks, 2005), unmet needs for job accommodations, and other policy and practice hurdles at workplaces facing people with disabilities (Church, Frazee, Panitch, Luciani, & Bowman, 2007).…”

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Canadians with Disabilities, Labour Market Challenges, and Employment Opportunities in the Social Economy

Prince

2014

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This article examines the labour force participation of working-age adults with disabilities, and proposes nonprofits and community agencies as sites for employing disabled Canadians. It documents employment trends over the last 15 years and how they compare to those for people without disabilities. The employment reform agenda of the Canadian disability movement is outlined as two broad approaches: distributional improvements and structural innovations. Inclusive and gainful employment is regarded as an essential part of economic and social citizenship. The challenges of labour force participation for adults with disabilities are then related to recent reports on Canada's aging population and to Harper government policies on employment for Canadians with disabilities. Finally, it explores applying a disability inclusion lens to the operations of social economy organizations. RÉSUMÉCet article porte sur la participation active des adultes en âge de travailler ayant des incapacités et propose la possibilité d'organismes sans but lucratif et des organismes communautaires comme un site d'emploi pour les Canadiens handicapés. Il documente les tendances de l'emploi au cours des 15 dernières années et comment ils se comparent aux personnes non handicapées. Le programme de réformes du travail du mouvement des personnes handicapées est décrite et approches de la réforme sont dites de diviser en deux grandes catégories : des améliorations et innovations structurelles. Travail rémunéré et inclusif est considéré comme une partie essentielle de la citoyenneté économique et sociale avec le préposé aux droits et responsabilités. Les défis de la participation de la population active pour les adultes ayant une déficience sont ensuite liés aux rapports publics récents sur la population vieillissante du Canada et aux décisions prises par le gouvernement conservateur Harper sur l'emploi pour les Canadiens ayant une déficience. Apprentissage politique et connaissances transfert peut se produire en appliquant une lentille d'inclusion des personnes handicapées aux activités des organisations d'économie sociale.

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‘Becausetheyhave all the power and I have none’: state restructuring of income and employment supports and disabled women's lives in Ontario, Canada

Cited by 52 publications

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The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class and Gender in Spaces of Workfare

The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class and Gender in Spaces of Workfare

Serious leisure and people with intellectual disabilities: benefits and opportunities

Canadians with Disabilities, Labour Market Challenges, and Employment Opportunities in the Social Economy

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