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From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship

By Mary Rita Holland — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… Neo-liberal and ‘Third Way’ discourse that centers on individual responsibility and productivity have eroded the unifying principles inherent in the welfare state at the time of its inception. The aim of the paper is to argue that the inaccessibility of CPPD illustrates the extent to which social citizenship rights have diminished - which casts an ominous shadow on the popular …