Academic Scientific JournalsDisability and employment. The economic model of disability as conceptualized by Marta Russell
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disability and employment, labor market discrimination, Marta Russell, economic model of disabilityAbstract
The article takes a closer look at the economic model of disability as presented in the analyses of the American researcher, activist fighting discrimination against people with disabilities in the labor market-Marta Russell. In her texts Marta Russell exposed the ways of exclusion of people with disabilities generated in modern capitalist societies, mainly in the United States. What stands out in her work is a clear critique of the oppression of disability and an analysis of the economic inequalities faced by people with disabilities due to austerity and the lack of economic democracy in capitalism. The perspective presented in the text explains why it is impossible to abolish discrimination against people with disabilities in the open labor market despite the many reforms and actions of the disability rights movement.
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