If there was full equality there would be less need for research.
Disability is a form of unpaid work itself.
Periodically politicians (when stuck for a scapegoat) attack members of the disability
community for "not doing paid work".
Has anyone calculated the economic impact on the community created by unpaid disabled people workers?
Most disabled I know do work, although so few get paid for their contribution
to society.
Keith
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:28:27 +0200 , Susanne Berg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>We are all so concerned with not seeming to be bought aren't we; but would
>any of us really ponder so long and hard on whether it is right or wrong for
>us to be paid for the time we spend researching.
>
>Another thought - we all think it is, not only right but probably
>unproblematic to reimburse people for wage losses because they spend time
>away from work contributing to our research. At the same time we seem to
>expect people, who are not employed in the meaning that they get a salary
>for working, to devote time to our things and be happy just to have
>something to do.
>
>Isn't this to reinforce the notion that only paid employment is considered
>valuable work?
>
>Since disabled people are marginalised in the labour market (mainly through
>discrimination) are we not exploiting the results of a discriminatory
>system?
>
>Things never are quite easy are they?
>
>Susanne
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