Negotiating ‘difference’: Representing disabled employees in the British workplace
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Abstract Drawing on qualitative interviews with disabled employees, union officers and disability‐related organizations, this article examines employee attempts to negotiate workplace adjustments and associated issues of workplace representation. UK employment law utilizes an individual medical model of disability, which conflicts with traditional collective approaches favoured by trade unions, which has implications for disabled employees and union representation. We explore the different strategies available to unions and conclude that, despite the role played by disability‐related organizations in supporting employees, unions are the only workplace actors who are capable of reconfiguring the ‘personal as political’ and integrating disability concerns into wider organizational agendas.
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The act of requesting adjustments can be perceived as confrontational by employers.
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- Authors
- Foster, D., & Fosh, P.
- Affiliations
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- ORCID
- Foster, Deborah
- Venue
- British Journal of Industrial Relations
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-08-04
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 560-582
- ISSN
- 0007-1080 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8543
- OpenAlex
- W2018491578
- Cited by
- 74
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 7.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Industrial Relations (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Labor Movements and Unions
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Education and Employment
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Rights and Representation
- Keywords
- disabled workers, workplace adaptation, union representation, trade unions, medical model of disability, labor law, employee representation, disability rights, British workplaces
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