Gender, work and social control : a century of disability benefits / Jackie Gulland.

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Gender, work and social control : a century of disability benefits / Jackie Gulland.

9781137605641
1137605642
1137605626
9781137605627

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, 2019.

©2019

English

1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages).

10.1057/978-1-137-60

HD7105.25.G7 G85 2019

240.115
368.38600941

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 peoples capacity for work from the beginning of the welfare state in the early 20th century. Amongst many subject areas, she explores womens 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. -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

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Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies.

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