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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49730-5 — Ableism at Work Paul David Harpur Frontmatter More Information ableism at work The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality,butthisisnotreflectedinnationallaws.Australia,Canada,Ireland,the UnitedKingdomandtheUnitedStatesallhaveonethingincommon:regulatory frameworks that treat workers with psychosocial disabilities less favourably than workers with either physical or sensory disabilities. Whether it be denying anti- discriminationprotectiontopeoplewithepisodicdisabilities,addictions,orother psychological impairments, failing to make reasonable accommodations/adjust- mentsforworkerswithpsychosocialdisabilities,ordenyingthemworkerscompen- sation or occupational health and safety protections, regulatory interventions embed inequalities. Ableism, sanism and prejudice are expressly stated in laws, reflectedinjudgmentsandperpetuatedbyworkplacepractices. dr paul david harpur isaseniorlecturerattheTCBeirneSchoolofLaw,the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also an International Distinguished FellowwiththeBurtonBlattInstitute,SyracuseUniversity,NewYork.DrHarpur isalsoaFulbrightFutureScholar,wherehewillbeavisitingfellowattheBurton Blatt Institute and Harvard Law School Project on Disabilities. Dr Harpur has beennameda2020fellowoftheHarvardLawSchoolProjectonDisabilities. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49730-5 — Ableism at Work Paul David Harpur Frontmatter More Information Cambridge Disability Lawand Policy Series Edited by Peter Blanck and Robin Paul Malloy TheDisabilityLawandPolicyseriesexaminesthesetopicsininterdisciplinaryand comparativeterms.Thebooksintheseriesreflectthediversityofdefinitions,causes, andconsequencesofdiscriminationagainstpersonswithdisabilitieswhileilluminating fundamentalthemesthatunitecountriesintheirpursuitofhumanrightslawsand policiestoimprovethesocialandeconomicstatusofpersonswithdisabilities.The seriescontainshistorical,contemporary,andcomparativescholarshipcrucialto identifyingindividual,organizational,cultural,attitudinal,andlegalthemesnecessary fortheadvancementofdisabilitylawandpolicy. Thebooktopicscoveredintheseriesalsoarereflectiveofthenewmoralandpolitical commitmentbycountriesthroughouttheworldtowardequalopportunityforpersons withdisabilitiesinsuchareasasemployment,housing,transportation,rehabilitation, andindividualhumanrights.Theserieswillthusplayasignificantroleininforming policymakers,researchers,andcitizensofissuescentraltodisabilityrightsand disabilityantidiscriminationpolicies.Theseriesgroundsthefutureofdisabilitylawand policyasavehicleforensuringthatthoselivingwithdisabilitiesparticipateasequal citizensoftheworld. 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ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108497305 doi:10.1017/9781108667371 ©PaulDavidHarpur2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Harpur,PaulDavid,1979–author. title:Ableismatwork:disablementandhierarchiesofimpairment/PaulDavidHarpur. othertitles:Disablementandhierarchiesofimpairment description:1.|NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2019.|Series:Cambridgedisability lawandpolicyseries|Includesindex. identifiers:lccn2019038137(print)|lccn2019038138(ebook)|isbn9781108497305 (hardback)|isbn9781108739771(paperback)|isbn9781108667371(epub) subjects:lcsh:Discriminationagainstpeoplewithdisabilities–Lawandlegislation.| Mentallyill–Legalstatus,laws,etc.|Laborlawsandlegislation.|Equalitybeforethelaw.| Humanrights.|ConventionontheRightsofPersonswithDisabilitiesandOptional Protocol(2007March30) classification:lcck637.h3652019(print)|lcck637(ebook)|ddc344.01/59–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019038137 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019038138 isbn978-1-108-49730-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49730-5 — Ableism at Work Paul David Harpur Frontmatter More Information Contents Foreword by Peter Blanck page xv Acknowledgements xix 1 Introduction 1 I Preliminary 1 A Core Thesis 1 B Comparative ResearchMethod 2 C ANoteon Terminology: MentalImpairments and Psychosocial Disabilities 4 D Why PsychosocialDisability? 6 II Inequalities, Oppression and Ableism at Work 7 A ArePersons with Disabilities Experiencing Inequalities in Exercising Their Right to Work? 8 III Theorising Hierarchies ofImpairment 12 A Understanding Hierarchies ofImpairment andPrejudice at Work 12 B How Sites ofOppression Are Constructed between Impairment Categories 13 C Prejudice against Psychosocial Disabilities 14 Conclusion 16 2 International Disability Norms atWork: International Law on Ableism atWork and the Hierarchy of Impairments 18 Introduction 18 I How Has InternationalLabour Law Historically Problematised the Disabled Worker? 20 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49730-5 — Ableism at Work Paul David Harpur Frontmatter More Information viii Contents A How the Collective Focus of the ILO Reduces Protection for Workers with Disabilities 21 B The ILO and the Problematising Disabilitythrough the Medical Model 24 C Workers with Disabilities and ILO Conventions and Jurisprudence:Discounting Ability Diversity atWork 26 D The Social Model andDevelopments in Ability Equality at Work 27 E ILOEmbracingNewDisabilityHumanRightsParadigm 30 II The UNand the New Disability Human Rights Paradigm 31 A The Emergence ofthe Disability Human Rights Paradigm andthe CRPD 31 B The Right to Work and the CRPD 34 C No Hierarchiesof Impairments: How the CRPD Promotes Ability Equalityat Work 35 Conclusion 37 3 The CRPD Committee, Ableism and Hierarchiesof Impairment at Work 38 Introduction 38 I The CRPD Committee and Its Role 40 II The CRPD Committee and Understanding the Problem of the Hierarchies ofImpairments at Work 42 A The Right toWork and the Interdependency ofRights 42 B Understanding the Problem:The CRPD Committee and the Denial of the Right toWork 44 III Regulatory FailuresWhich Promote Ableism at Work and Hierarchiesof Impairment 47 A The Ability Apartheid IsNo Accident: Regulatory Interventions That Aim to Exclude Workers with Disabilities 47 B Hierarchies of Impairments in Laws Which Fail to Regulate Key Barriers toAbility Equality atWork 49 IV Importance ofComparable and Disaggregated Data in Identifying andAddressing the Hierarchy of Impairments at Work 50 A The CRPD on the DisaggregationofData and Hierarchy ofImpairments 51 B Disaggregation ofData and Hierarchy ofImpairments 51 Conclusion 53 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49730-5 — Ableism at Work Paul David Harpur Frontmatter More Information Contents ix 4 Hierarchiesof Impairment at Work in the Regulation and Response toSheltered Work 54 Introduction 54 I Introducing ShelteredWorkshops 56 A What AreSheltered Workshops? 57 B Funding ShelteredWork 58 II The CRPD Committee andthe Agenda against ShelteredWork 60 A How Does the CRPD Distinguish between Acceptable and UnacceptableEmployment Options? 60 B What Has the CRPD Committee Said on Sheltered Workshops? 61 C Transitioning from ShelteredWork to Open Work Can Take Considerable Effort and Retraining 62 D Why the CRPD Committee IsOpposed to Sheltered Work 62 III Disability Scholarship That Supports the Position Taken by the CRPD Committee 64 A Separate Is Bad 64 B Exploitative Not toPay Equalfor Workers with and without Disabilities 65 C Inability toTransition outof Sheltered Work 66 IV Ableism in the Open Labour Market and Transitioning from Sheltered Work toWhat? 67 A Transitioningto What? From Sheltered Permanent Employment toLow-Skilled Casual Employment 67 B Beyond PrecariousEmployment toPrecarious Work: Unsheltered and Unregulated Work 69 C Non-Ideal Employment to NoEmployment: Experiences When Sheltered WorkshopsAreClosed 71 V We Know What IsGoodfor You:Everything about You without You 73 A My VoiceMyChoice: Hear Me 73 B You Have My Voice, NowHelp Me Use It: Disability Person Organisations 78 Conclusion 78 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49730-5 — Ableism at Work Paul David Harpur Frontmatter More Information x Contents 5 The ArbitraryExclusion ofEpisodic and Psychosocial Disabilities from Legal Protection: The Duration Test Promoting Ableism atWork 81 Introduction 81 I Psychosocial Disabilities as Episodic Disabilities 82 A What AreEpisodic Disabilities? 82 B Episodic Disabilities Are Misunderstood 83 C Difference between Episodic andStableDisabilities atWork 84 II InternationalDisability Norms: Protecting by Categories and Not by Need 86 A Minority GroupandUniversalist Approach to Disability 86 B The CRPD Adopts the Minority Group Approach 88 C The Duration Test inthe CRPD 90 III Duration Tests andDisability Discrimination and Diversity Laws 91 A Proving the Presenceofa PsychosocialDisability 94 B FakingorReal:ChallengesinProvingEpisodicDisability 95 C Beyond Anti-discrimination Laws, How Do Other State InterventionsApproach Episodic Disabilities? 99 Conclusion 100 6 Ability Apartheid atWork: The Policy of Stigmatising and Excluding ‘Unacceptable’ Psychosocial Disabilities from Anti-discriminationLaws 102 Introduction 102 I Examplesof Psychological Conditions That Are Deemed OutsideProtection 105 A Psychological Conditions Where Propensity for Conduct DeemedUnacceptable in Society 105 B Substance Abuse Addictions 108 II IsIt ReasonabletoExpect Workerswith Psychosocial Disabilities to Rehabilitate to Gain Protection? 113 A Attemptsto Rehabilitate Can Enliven Anti-discrimination Protections 113 B Mitigating anImpairment IsNormally Not Necessary 114 C Should the Decision toRefuse Treatment Be Relevant in Considering What Are Reasonable Accommodations? 115 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
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