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Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.
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.
Introduction
Part I
1. The Historico-Political Context of Disablement and Work in the UK
2. The Politics of Disablement and Work: Theoretical and Political Considerations
Part II
3. Living in the Social Factory
4. The Sphere of Activity of Waged Work: The Gig Economy
5. The Sphere of Activity of Waged Work: Advocating for Change within Workplaces
6. The Sphere of Activity of Unwaged Work: Lifelong Probation through the State and Society
7. The Sphere of Activity of Unwaged Work: Assistance, Rest, and Resistance
Part III
8. Horizons to Move Towards
9. Co-Visioning and Prefiguring the Future in the Here and Now
Conclusion