1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work

Edited By Oana Branzei, Anica Zeyen Copyright 2025
424 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

424 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

424 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work explores the realities faced by disabled individuals in the workplace and beyond. Despite enduring stereotypes and prejudice, disabled employees and entrepreneurs continue to achieve and thrive. This Companion documents the history and future of disability organizing, highlighting concerns of the world's largest minority—over 1 billion people or... Read more

Introduction 1

1 An Introduction to Disability at Work

Anica Zeyen and Oana Branzei

2 A Mid- Range Review of (Dis)Ableism at Work

Oana Branzei and Anica Zeyen

PART II

Disability Workplaces

3 From Right to Work

Gregor Wolbring

4 From Charity to Human Rights

Ren Lovegood and Silvia Dorado

5 From Exclusion to Inclusion

Rosemary Lysaght, Terry Krupa, and Kelley Packalen

6 From Existence to Resistance

Sanjukta Choudhury Kaul

PART III

Disability at Work

7 (Dis)ableism at Work

Eline Jammaers, Anna Laura Hidegh, and Sarah Richard

8 Disability Disclosure at Work

Jeff Preston

9 Disability Stigma at Work

Patricia Helena Hein, Wesley Helms, Jan Lodge, and Karli Woods

10 Disability Socialization at Work

Thomas Dirth and Christian Sipe

11 Disability Activism at Work

Lisa Buchter

PART IV

Disability Work

12 Disability and (In)visibility Work

Rachel Le Marois

13 Disability and Identity Work

Alecia Santuzzi and Lauren Luchetti

14 Disability and Access Work in Fieldwork Education

Erika Katzman, Sally A. Kimpson, Susan Mahipaul, Tracey Edelist, Shahbano Zaman, and Tal Jarus

15 Disability and Voice Work

Anita Starzyk and Jana F. Bauer

16 Disability and Relational Work

Emily Heaphy, Andries Baeken, and Gihyun Kim

17 (Dis)ability and Body Work

Alexandra Michel

18 Disability and Well- Being Work

Maija Renko, Sarah Parker Harris, and Kate Caldwell

19 Disability and Respect Work

Oana Branzei and Anica Zeyen

20 Disability and Restoration Work

Lee Wainwright

21 Disability and Resourcing Work

Neva Bojovic, Johannes Kraak, Angela Owens- Schill, and Amanda Peticca- Harris

22 Disability and Justice Work

Kate Caldwell, Sumithra Murthy, Rooshey Hasnain, Brenda Parker,and Bailey Werner

23 Disability and Mobilization Work

Paul David Harpur and Brooke Szucs

PART V

Pathways to System Change towards Disability Inclusion

24 Education against (Dis)ableism: Experience of Teachers with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools

Nidhi Singal and Thilanka Wijesinghe

25 Advocacy against (Dis)ableism

Emma McKinney and Vic McKinney

26 Consultancy against (Dis)ableism

Melea Press and Stephen Cook

27 Superheroes against (Dis)ableism

Kanika Gupta and Oana Branzei

28 Service Animals against (Dis)ableism

Christine A. Mihelcic and Anica Zeyen

PART VI

The Future of Disability (at) Work

29 An Emergent Theory of Disability Work

Oana Branzei and Anica Zeyen

30 A Research Agenda for Disability Work

Anica Zeyen and Oana Branzei

 

Biography

Oana Branzei is Paul MacPherson Chair in Strategic Leadership and Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University. Oana’s research focuses on hopeful, purposeful, mindful, and explicitly prosocial organizing in response to grand challenges. She is a reflexive researcher who studies emplaced and embodied responses to both everyday and extreme events. Oana is a temporarily abled-bodied ally to disabled collaborators confronting (dis)ableism.

Anica Zeyen is Professor in Entrepreneurship and Inclusion at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway University of London. Anica’s research focuses on disability-inclusive organizing. She is a qualitative researcher who specializes in diary studies and visual methods. Anica is blind and volunteers as a disability advocate and campaigner.