Some Reflections on Clifford’s "The War on Disabled People": Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe

Giuliana Parodi ()
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Giuliana Parodi: Former Professor at the Università "G. d’Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Pescara

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2022, vol. 130, issue 2, 211-222

Abstract: The review of the book by Ellen Clifford The War on Disabled People (2020), focussing on the UK, prompts reflections on other recently published books on disability, i.e. Ryan’s Crippled (2019), again on the UK, Cullinan and others (2015) The Economics of Disability, on Ireland, and Agovino and others (2020) Aspetti Socioeconomici della disabilità : lavoro, reddito e politiche, about Italy. Despite the very different contexts and methodology of analysis, the findings of these books consistently show the inferior position of disabled people in western societies with respect to the labour market, income levels and risk of poverty. This situation has been exacerbated by the austerity imposed after the 2008 crisis, both financially and in terms of reduced services provided by local authorities. These results appear to confirm the view that the inferior situation of disabled people points to a systemic social problem, which only a deep transformative process can alter.

Keywords: Disability; Public finance; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 H75 J14 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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