Disability and the State Production of Precarity
通过精神病残疾人的职业培训项目田野调查，揭示福利国家在残疾待遇上的两个矛盾：低福利金与收入限制迫使残疾人从事低薪工作，国家资助的相互矛盾要求导致临时工安置，从而制造了不稳定的残疾劳动力。
Materialist theories of disability link disability and labor, hypothesizing that under neoliberalism, disability stigma contributes to labor market precarity. These claims have not been evaluated empirically and the mediating role of the state remains underspecified. Ethnographic fieldwork in a job training program for people with psychiatric disabilities reveals two contradictions in the welfare state treatment of disability. First, disability benefits are set at low levels, yet means-testing limits earnings, channeling people with disabilities into low-wage jobs. Second, contradictory imperatives attached to state funding incentivize placement in temporary jobs. These welfare state contradictions produce disabled workers as a precarious labor force.