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Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy

Russell, Marta
http://solidarity-us.org/disablement-oppression-and-political-economy/

Publisher:  Solidarity
Date Written:  03/09/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labour force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons – to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labour supply.

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Our institutions (particularly medical and social welfare institutions) have historically held disablement to be an individual problem, not the result of economic or social forces.5 They have equated disability with physiological, anatomical, or mental 'defects" and hegemonically held these conditions responsible for the disabled person's lack of full participation in the economic life of our society.

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