Gender, Work and Social Control : A Century of Disability Benefits
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 30881241
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-60564-1
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137605627
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Social Work
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Gender, work and social control: a century of disability benefits provides a detailed socio-legal study of the implementation of disability benefits over the last hundred years and draws on social policy, law, social history, disability studies, gender studies and sociology. Based on analysis of analysis of over 300 sickness benefit appeal cases and over 100 files of civil service documents and papers, data collection entails archival research in the National Archives, National Records of Scotland, London Metropolitan Archive, Prudential Assurance Company Archive, National Library of Scotland, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and the Working Class Movement Library.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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