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From flexibility to accommodation? Disabled people and the reinvention of paid work

Abstract

Scholarship on ‘flexible’ work and changing organizational cultures has had little to say about the implications of these developments for disabled people. Drawing on in‐depth interviews, this paper examines the ways in which disabled workers struggle over accommodations in contemporary workplaces. Analysis reveals a number of themes concerning training, speed at work, and emotional and aesthetic labour. At their core, these themes concern the …

Authors

Wilton RD

Journal

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 420–432

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

12 2004

DOI

10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00139.x

ISSN

0020-2754