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Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Colin Lindsay

    1. University of Strathclyde, UK

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  2. Donald Houston

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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Part of the book series: Work and Welfare in Europe (RECOWE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Fit for Work? Representations and Explanations of the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’ in the UK and Beyond

    • Colin Lindsay, Donald Houston
    Pages 1-14

  3. Disability Benefits in the UK: An Issue of Health or Jobs?

    • Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill
    Pages 15-32

  4. A History of Work-Disability

    • John Macnicol
    Pages 33-53

  5. Are Incapacity Benefit Claimants beyond Employment? Exploring Issues of Employability

    • Anne Green, Ian Shuttleworth
    Pages 54-71

  6. Redefining ‘Fit For Work’: Welfare Reform and the Introduction of Employment Support Allowance

    • Helen Barnes, Paul Sissons
    Pages 72-93

  7. A Health Problem? Health and Employability in the UK Labour Market

    • Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Clare Bambra
    Pages 94-110

  8. The Interaction of Health, Labour Market Conditions, and Long-Term Sickness Benefit Claims in a Post-industrial City: A Glasgow Case Study

    • David Webster, Judith Brown, Ewan B. Macdonald, Ivan Turok
    Pages 111-133

  9. The Impact of the UK’s Disability Benefit Reforms

    • Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill, Donald Houston
    Pages 134-152

  10. Germany: Attempting to Activate the Long-Term Unemployed with Reduced Working Capacity

    • Martin Brussig, Matthias Knuth
    Pages 153-177

  11. Incapacity Benefits — Change and Continuity in the Swedish Welfare State

    • Rickard Ulmestig
    Pages 178-198

  12. From Dutch Disease to Dutch Fitness? Two Decades of Disability Crisis in the Netherlands

    • Rik van Berkel
    Pages 199-215

  13. New Zealand’s Reform of Sickness Benefit and Invalid’s Benefit

    • Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall
    Pages 216-232

  14. Fit for Purpose? Lessons for Policies to Address the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’

    • Donald Houston, Colin Lindsay
    Pages 233-241

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 242-244
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About this book

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Strathclyde, UK

    Colin Lindsay

  • University of St Andrews, UK

    Donald Houston

About the editors

Clare Bambra, Durham University, UK Helen Barnes, Independent Social Policy Researcher and Consultant Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Judith Brown, University of Glasgow, UK Martin Brussig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steve Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Kayleigh Garthwaite, Durham University, UK Anne Green, University of Warwick, UK Daniel Horsfall, University of York, UK Matthias Knuth, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Neil Lunt, University of York, UK Ewan B. Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK John Macnicol, London School of Economics, UK Ian Shuttleworth, Queen's University, Northern Ireland Paul Sissons, The Work Foundation, UK Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Rickard Ulmestig, University of Jönköping, Sweden Rik van Berkel, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jon Warren, Durham University, UK David Webster, University of Glasgow, UK

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