There Is Nothing Wrong with Me

The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2374546
AutoresGemma L Bend (0000-0002-1563-8563, University of Huddersfield, autor correspondente), Vincenza Priola (0000-0002-8816-9104, The Open University)
Ano2023
Volume37
Fascículo3
Páginas645-664
Data de publicação2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/09500170211034762
OpenAlexW3186214956
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências 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