In the early 2000s, nearly two million men – and less than one million women – were eligible for disability benefits in … article interrogates the identity shifts of men who very often became « ill » after having been made redundant. It focuses on … social identity? The advisers invite the beneficiaries to describe their « dream job » all the while instructing them to be …

, and on the ?newspeak? of political and economic debates about diversity. The article examines the role of diversity in the … legal and political fields in order to unpack fascination with diversity. We add nuance to the hypothesis that the concept … of diversity is leading to the replacement of legal categories with managerial norms. We posit that this embodies a …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ‘penalty …

formal gender, ethnicity, disability and age policies. It then assesses whether the policies are ‘substantive’ or merely …