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Title:
Papers of the Disability Alliance, 1973-1998

Subject Categories:
Management and organisation - Industry and management
Social indicators and quality of life - Society and Culture
Equality and inequality - Social stratification and groupings
General - Social welfare policy and systems

Depositor(s):
Townsend, P., University of Essex. Department of Sociology

Principal Investigator(s):
Townsend, P., University of Essex. Department of Sociology

Abstract:
The Disability Alliance, formed in November 1973, is the campaigning wing of The Disability Alliance Educational and Research Association. It has grown into a national federation of over 250 organisations of and for disabled people, who joined together to press for the introduction of a Comprehensive Disability Income Scheme. Peter Townsend was a founding member of the federation and these papers provide an insight into the running of the organisation, the development of social policy on disablement and the course of political activism on disablement issues from the 1970s to the mid 1990s.

Main Topics:
Residential care of the disabled; pressure groups; disabled; physically disabled; mentally disabled; social policy; social security; social security benefits; social welfare; social justice; social disadvantage; care of the disabled; disabled facilities.

Coverage:
Time Period Covered: 1973-1998
Dates of Fieldwork: 1973-1998
Country: United Kingdom
Spatial Units: No spatial unit
Observation Units: Text units (documents/chapters/words)
Kind of Data: Textual data

Universe Sampled:
Location of Units of Observation:Cross-national
Population:Committee papers

Methodology:
Time Dimensions: Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Sampling Procedures: No sampling (total universe)
Method of Data Collection: Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Weighting: No weighting used

Language(s) of Written Materials:
Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

Access:
Access Conditions: Host archive conditions apply
Availability: These data are available from a service other than ESDS, UK Data Archive - National Social Policy and Social Change Archive. Albert Sloman Library Special Collections, University of Essex. Contact ESDS Qualidata, UK Data Archive, in the first instance.
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Copyright:
Copyright Professor Peter Townsend.