Barriers to Employment Among Women With Complex Episodic Disabilities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12364734
AutoresAndrea Vick (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,, autor correspondente), Ernie Lightman (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Ano2010
Volume21
Fascículo2
Páginas70-80
Data de publicação2010-08-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Disability Policy Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1044-2073 • E-ISSN: 1538-4802
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1044207309358588
OpenAlexW2125197021
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas34

The expansion of the global economy, characterized by shifts in the organization of labor markets, has increased demands for flexible employment. Changes from standard, permanent employment relationships to nonstandard or “precarious” work arrangements have become the normative template in many work settings. Although significant scholarship explores precarious employment among the nondisabled, little work examines precarious work among persons with disabilities, especially women. Drawing on a secondary analysis of a series of longitudinal, semistructured interviews, this article explores the personal and structural barriers to employment that five women with complex episodic disabilities identify as welfare recipients within the context of precarious employment. Implications for practice relationships and policy that consider an alternative understanding of (dis)ability and employability as a contingent, fluid embodiment are considered

Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Employability · Labour economics · Normative · Political science · Precarious work · Scholarship · Sociology · Welfare · Work (physics · Disability Education and Employment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment