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- Title
Duty to Entitlement: Work and Citizenship in the Finnish Post-War Disability Policy, early 1940s to 1970.
- Authors
Leppälä, Heli
- Abstract
This paper analyses Finnish disability policies from the early 1940s to 1970. It focuses on the conceptualisation of work and citizenship in the discussions on the legal provision of welfare for invalids and for the mentally deficient/developmentally disabled. It is shown that during this period, a considerable change took place in the relationship of these concepts. During the period of 1940 to the 1950s, work was viewed as an important civic duty. Accordingly, disability policies focused on groups having the best chances of being rehabilitated into economically productive members of the society. During the 1960s, policies' expediency began to be estimated more on individual interests than on public gain and rehabilitation was extended into groups which had previously been viewed as unprofitable targets. As every individual was viewed as entitled to participation and work was understood as important for achieving this goal, its role changed from being viewed as a citizens' duty to their entitlement.
- Subjects
FINLAND; CITIZENSHIP; DISABILITIES; PUBLIC welfare policy; SOCIOLOGY of work; MORAL education; FINNISH politics &; government; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Social History of Medicine, 2014, Vol 27, Issue 1, p144
- ISSN
0951-631X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/shm/hkt074