There Is Nothing Wrong with Me

The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2374546
AutoresGemma L Bend (0000-0002-1563-8563, University of Huddersfield, autor de correspondencia), Vincenza Priola (0000-0002-8816-9104, The Open University)
Año2023
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas645-664
Fecha de publicación2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/09500170211034762
OpenAlexW3186214956
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas44

This article explores the lived experiences of disabled men and women who work in sheltered employment. Specifically, it analyses how the entanglement of sociomaterial practices affects disabled workers' co-constructions of work and disability. Theoretically grounded in posthumanist performativity theory, the article shows how embodied employment experiences within organisational spaces contribute to the materialisation of disability. Findings emerged from ethnographic participant observations and interviews with management and workers at a sheltered workshop. The data highlight how the entanglement of bodies, space, objects and discourses affects materialisations of disability in ways that appear more inclusive than in mainstream employment. However, these sociomaterial practices remain embedded in a productivity-oriented work logic

Aesthetics · Disability studies · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music · Mainstream · Nothing · Participant observation · Performativity · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions