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[...] Until 1970, mental disability was not a barrier to finding work as long as the need for unskilled labor was present. However, structural unemployment will generate "the struggle for places" according to Vincent de Gaulejac, with consequences such as forms of disconnection, exclusion, and precariousness among a certain segment of the population, particularly people with disabilities who will then be representative of social maladjustment. As a corollary, the notion of employability has emerged, leading people with mental disabilities into a real paradox: the increasingly normative nature of work excludes more and more particularities and singularities, hindering - since they are not recognized - the emergence of other potentialities. [...]
[...] ) and this can lead to stigmatization reactions. As a result, the person with a disability may feel excluded from the work collective. In addition, the technical adjustments to the work station alone stigmatize the person from the point of view of the constraints that, even if they succeed in compensating for the deficiencies, forget the potentialities. The constructivist approach to disability (and more broadly to health in general) appears more suitable to address the issue of the integration of recognized workers with disabilities. [...]
[...] Between Work and Disability . - Joël Le Dantec (2004) Link: https://shs.cairn.info/revue-empan-2004-3-page-73?lang=fr Joël le Dantec, a sociology PhD student, in his article "work and disability" published in the "Empan" review in 2004, questions the social representation of work over time and the paradox present in the professional integration of people recognized as having mental disabilities. From his research in various medical and social organizations and more particularly in CAT (protected work environment), he questions the difficult articulation between work and disability by pointing out particularities according to different environmental and social factors." Part I According to Joel Le Dantec, the idealized representations of social integration of people recognized as disabled still involve professional integration. [...]
[...] On the one hand, in a preventive manner, by avoiding constraints that can cause occupational diseases (Musculoskeletal Disorders, for example), but also by working in the perspective of developing new skills through learning and training to broaden the possibilities of action of people. To do this, it would be necessary to move away from the simple study of the work station and focus on the work situation in all its systemic, participatory, and multidisciplinary dimensions. These environmental ergonomic study methods could bring a true social integration of people with disabilities, develop the collective and bring to work, a renewed value and social representations of insertion. [...]
[...] Today, entering adulthood is a source of return to the family circle, while for older people (40 years old), fatigue is claimed to "leave room for younger people" and is an attempt to break free from the grip of work. The social integration of people with disabilities through work seems to have lost its representation of connections. Other practices of circumvention are at work when the social origin of the parents allows it: craftsman, shopkeeper, farmer . where work is only perceived in a filial relationship. Others choose precariousness (hitting the road) over work in a protected environment that ensures salary and housing. [...]
