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Crippled: Austerity and the demonization of disabled people

Status of Publication: Published/Completed
Date produced: 2020
Individual author(s): Ryan F
Type of Resource: Research
Impairment area(s): Pan-impairment
Transport mode(s): Unspecified
Journey stage: Unspecified
Region: United Kingdom (not specified)

Document summary

In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain’s 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse. In Crippled, journalist and campaigner Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality, telling the stories of those most affected by this devastating regime. It is at once both a damning indictment of a safety net so compromised it strangles many of those it catches and a passionate demand for an end to austerity, which hits hardest those most in need.

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