Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism, and Disablement [book]
Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism, and Disablement – published by Bristol University Press
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Brief overview:
This book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are ‘non-workers’, it shows how society is dependent upon their everyday paid and unpaid activities. Drawing on research with disabled participants, it expands what counts as work: from care, assistance, and work for the state to resistance and rest.
The book centres disabled people’s own critiques of precarious work and productivism, highlighting how disability is fundamental to debates on class and exploitation. Insightful and collaborative, it rejects the productivist lens through which disability is often approached, and rethinks possibilities for a non-capitalist organisation of society.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1529259032
Ebook ISBN: 978-1529259049
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Contact: Ioana Cerasella Chis at ioana.chis[at]glasgow.ac.uk or via the contact form here.
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More information about prior publications and activities of the project: https://DisPrecWork.wordpress.com
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Where research or any insights from the book-related project have been presented:
National and International Scholarly Associations’/Societies’ conferences, symposia, and workshops:
AACS (Association for Applied & Clinical Social Research), AHE (Association for Heterodox Economics), APSA (American Political Science Association), ASA (American Sociological Association); BISA (British International Studies Association), BSA (British Sociological Association), BSA MedSoc (Medical Sociology Conference), BSA Symposium (Rest, Work, and Activism through the Lens of Disability Politics); CSA (Canadian Sociological Association); ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies), ESA (European Sociological Association), ESRC/MGS (Midlands Graduate School (MGS) & Economic and Social Research Council); HM/MDN (Historical Materialism Journal & Marxism and Disability Network); ISEE (International Society for Ecological Economics), ISA [forthcoming] (Italian Sociological Association); LSA (Leisure Studies Association); MDN (Marxism and Disability Network); MPSA (Midwest Political Science Association), MSSA (Mid-South Sociological Association); PSA (Political Studies Association), PSA ECN (Early Career Network Conference); SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), SDS [skills workshop] (Society for Disability Studies), SLSA (Socio-Legal Studies Association); TASA (The Australian Sociological Association).
Events organised by university-based centres/networks’ events (click here for more details):
CAPPE (Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Ethics), University of Brighton, UK; CAS (Centre for Advanced Studiess, University of Rijeka, Croatia; CDS (Center on Disability Studies), University of Hawai’i Honolulu, US; CERIC (Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change), University of Leeds; Critical Accounting Podcast; CDS (Centre for Disability Studies), University of Leeds, UK; CSMH (ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health), King’s College London UK; WIRC (Work Inclusivity Research Centre), University of Birmingham; PERG (Political Economy Research Group), University of Birmingham; SoG (School of Government), University of Birmingham; POLSIS (Political Science and International Studies Department), University of Birmingham, UK.
Research published in: GPE, IJCC, IJDSJ [with a future translation into Spanish for a political theory journal], BMS;
Blog/magazine publications: Political Studies Association blog, European Sociological Association ‘European Sociologist’ e-magazine, and National Survivor User Network blog.