Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy

Chapter 1 Fit for Work? Representations and Explanations of the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’ in the UK and Beyond

Chapter 2 Disability Benefits in the UK: An Issue of Health or Jobs?

Chapter 3 A History of Work-Disability

Chapter 4 Are Incapacity Benefit Claimants beyond Employment? Exploring Issues of Employability

Chapter 5 Redefining ‘Fit For Work’: Welfare Reform and the Introduction of Employment Support Allowance

Chapter 6 A Health Problem? Health and Employability in the UK Labour Market

Chapter 7 The Interaction of Health, Labour Market Conditions, and Long-Term Sickness Benefit Claims in a Post-industrial City: A Glasgow Case Study

Chapter 9 Germany: Attempting to Activate the Long-Term Unemployed with Reduced Working Capacity

Chapter 10 Incapacity Benefits — Change and Continuity in the Swedish Welfare State

Chapter 11 From Dutch Disease to Dutch Fitness? Two Decades of Disability Crisis in the Netherlands

Chapter 12 New Zealand’s Reform of Sickness Benefit and Invalid’s Benefit

Chapter 13 Fit for Purpose? Lessons for Policies to Address the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’