an article by Tom Shakespeare and Ola Abu Alghaib (University of East Anglia, Norwich, England) and Nicholas Watson (University of Glasgow, Scotland) published in Critical Social Policy
Volume 37 Issue 1 (February 2017)
Abstract
The biopsychosocial model (BPS) of mental distress, originally conceived by American psychiatrist George Engel in the 1970s and commonly used in psychiatry and psychology, has been adapted by Gordon Waddell and Mansel Aylward to form the theoretical basis for current UK government thinking on disability.
Most importantly, the Waddell and Aylward version of the BPS has played a key role as the government has sought to reform spending on out-of-work disability benefits.
This article critiques Waddell and Aylward’s model, examining its origins, its claims and the evidence it employs. We argue that its potential for genuine interdisciplinary cooperation and the holistic and humanistic benefits for disabled people as envisaged by Engel are not now, if they ever have been, fully realised.
Any potential benefit it may have offered has been eclipsed by its role in Coalition/Conservative government social welfare policies that have blamed the victim and justified restriction of entitlements.
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Monday, 13 March 2017
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
The Marxist View of the Labor Unions: Complex and Critical
an article by Dan La Botz (affiliation(s) not provided) published in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor & Society Volume 16 Issue 1 (March 2013)
Abstract
Since the world economic crisis of 2008 and governments’ increasing demands for austerity in countries around the globe, labour unions have failed to provide leadership to the working class. This has led to a debate about the value of unions and their role in social change.
Long-standing socialist organisations and emerging non-state socialist and anarchist groups have begun an important discussion of the nature of the labour unions, the character of their leaderships, and their relationship to employers and the state.
Marx and Engels are often referred to or cited as authorities in these debates, though seldom do we have an overview of how they arrived at their complex understanding of labour union structures, leaderships, politics, and behaviours.
This essay is meant to contribute to this important discussion by examining Marx’s and Engel’s involvement in the workers’ movement, including with the labour unions, as well as their writings about labour unions, placing them in the broader context of their revolutionary socialist strategy and vision. We trace the development of these ideas from their first involvement with the workers movement in the mid-1840s until the death of both by the 1890s. Finally, we conclude by making a summary of their considered opinion.
Abstract
Since the world economic crisis of 2008 and governments’ increasing demands for austerity in countries around the globe, labour unions have failed to provide leadership to the working class. This has led to a debate about the value of unions and their role in social change.
Long-standing socialist organisations and emerging non-state socialist and anarchist groups have begun an important discussion of the nature of the labour unions, the character of their leaderships, and their relationship to employers and the state.
Marx and Engels are often referred to or cited as authorities in these debates, though seldom do we have an overview of how they arrived at their complex understanding of labour union structures, leaderships, politics, and behaviours.
This essay is meant to contribute to this important discussion by examining Marx’s and Engel’s involvement in the workers’ movement, including with the labour unions, as well as their writings about labour unions, placing them in the broader context of their revolutionary socialist strategy and vision. We trace the development of these ideas from their first involvement with the workers movement in the mid-1840s until the death of both by the 1890s. Finally, we conclude by making a summary of their considered opinion.
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