Ableism At Work - Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment

Informationen zum Autor Paul David Harpur is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, TC Beirne School of Law. He is a Fulbright Future Scholar hosted by the Harvard Law School Project on Disabilities and the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. He is also a former duel Paralympian and duel Commonwealth Games representative. Klappentext The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Ableism at Work: Disability and Hierarchies of Impairment is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities. Zusammenfassung The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality! but this is not experienced in national laws. Ableism at Work: Disability and Hierarchies of Impairment is a comprehensive comparative legal! practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction to monograph; 2. International disability norms at work: international law on ableism at work and the hierarchy of impairments; 3. The CRPD Committee, ableism and hierarchies of impairment at work; 4. Hierarchies of impairment at work in the regulation and response to sheltered work; 5. The arbitrary exclusion of episodic and psychosocial disabilities from legal protection: the duration test promoting ableism at work; 6. Ability apartheid at work: the policy of stigmatizing and excluding 'unacceptable' psychosocial disabilities from anti-discrimination laws; 7. Reasonable accommodations in a psychosocial diverse workplace: hierarchies of impairment at work; 8. Using occupational safety and health laws to promote psychological health at work; 9. Sanism and ableism in the law's response to injured workers; 10. Advancing psychosocial diversity using contract and unfair dismissal laws; Index....

Product details

• Authors: Paul David Harpur, Paul David (University of Queensland) Harpur
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108497305
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49730-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and P; Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Behinderung: soziale Aspekte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Behinderung und Recht, Arbeitsrecht: Diskriminierung und Mobbing, Social discrimination & inequality, Disability: social aspects, Social discrimination and social justice, Disability & The Law, Disability and the law, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Discrimination in employment law