Enabling Technology (Disability, Human Rights and Society) [Hardcover]

Roulstone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0335198023 | ISBN-13: 978-0335198023

Using a social barriers model of disability, this text addresses the role of new technology in reducing the environmental and attitude barriers disabled people have commonly to face in the field of employment. This text is critical of established writings on disability and new technology, and suggests that the adoption of medical models of disability leads to misrepresentation of the benefits of new technology for disabled people. The social barriers model discussed in this book views the benefits of new technology as inhering its potential to rehabilitate disabling environments. The text also addresses the need to reframe policies on technology access away from a welfarist "eligibility" model and towards a "social rights" approach - one where disabled people are centrally involved in the framing, operation and review of technology access policy. The following questions are also addressed by this book: what is the significance of new microchip technologies for disabled workers/job seekers?; how is new technology enabling some disabled workers to gain enhanced access to employment and a more enabling employment?; and what are the policy implications of the research findings and the re-evaluation of the role of new technology?

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"...informative and engaging." - Public Administration --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Alan Roulstone is currently Programme Director for Social Sciences at the University of Sunderland where he lectures in Disability Studies and Work, Leisure and Employment. He obtained a PhD in Disability Studies at the Open University in 1995 and has previously lectured in Employment Studies and Law at Staffordshire University. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Open University Pres (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0335198023
• ISBN-13: 978-0335198023
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,255,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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