num_pages: 240
description: The austerity crisis and threat to disability rightsIn austerity Britain disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britains 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse. In Crippled  journalist and campaigner Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality telling the stories of those most affected by this devastating regime. It is at once both a damning indictment of a safety net so compromised it strangles many of those it catches and a passionate demand for an end to austerity which hits hardest those most in need.
language: English
title: Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
publisher: Verso