Ebook: Crippled: the austerity crisis and the threat to disability rights
Author: Ryan Frances
- Tags: People with disabilities--Economic conditions, People with disabilities--Government policy, People with disabilities--Government policy--Great Britain, People with disabilities--Great Britain--Economic conditions, People with disabilities--Services for, People with disabilities--Services for--Great Britain, People with disabilities -- Government policy -- Great Britain, People with disabilities -- Services for -- Great Britain, People with disabilities -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions, People with
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Verso Books
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
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The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights
In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case Britain's 12 million disabled people are a drain on the public purse. In Crippled, leading commentator Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality, telling the story of those most affected by this devastating regime. This includes a paralyzed man forced to crawl down the stairs because the council wouldn't provide accessible housing; the malnourished woman sleeping in her wheelchair; and the young girl with bipolar forced to turn to sex work to survive.
Through these personal stories, Ryan charts how in recent years the public attitude towards disabled people has transformed from compassion to contempt: from society's "most vulnerable" to benefit cheats. Crippled is a damning indictment of a safety net gone wrong, and a passionate demand for an...
In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case Britain's 12 million disabled people are a drain on the public purse. In Crippled, leading commentator Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality, telling the story of those most affected by this devastating regime. This includes a paralyzed man forced to crawl down the stairs because the council wouldn't provide accessible housing; the malnourished woman sleeping in her wheelchair; and the young girl with bipolar forced to turn to sex work to survive.
Through these personal stories, Ryan charts how in recent years the public attitude towards disabled people has transformed from compassion to contempt: from society's "most vulnerable" to benefit cheats. Crippled is a damning indictment of a safety net gone wrong, and a passionate demand for an...
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