Ableism At Work - Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul David Harpur, Paul David (University of Queensland) Harpur
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108739771
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73977-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, Political Correctness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Social discrimination & inequality, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Disability: social aspects, Social classes, Social attitudes, Social discrimination and social justice, Disability & The Law, Disability and the law, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Discrimination in employment law