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Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course
Author(s)	Mark Priestley
Journal title	Journal of Social Policy, vol 29, no 3, July 2000
Pages	pp 421-439
Keywords	Physical disabilities ; Life span ; Family relationships ; Social welfare ; Social policy.
Annotation	This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long standing cultural construction of 'normal' life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. However, social changes and the emergence of new policy discourses have brought into question the way in which we think about dependency and welfare at the end of the twentieth century. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000928204 A
Classmark	BN: BG6: DS:SJ: TY: TM2
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