The development of the contemporary social security system has seen support to those who are sick and disabled greatly rationalised. Claimants are required to go through, what has often been termed a ‘humiliating’ medical examination and complicated bureaucratic process in order to evidence entitlement to benefit. Gulland’s text provides a critical historic context for the architecture of current system which is premised on ‘using mechanisms of social control to regulate the lives of claimants’ (2019: 2).

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书评：性别，工作与社会控制：一百年来的残障福利

当代社会保障制度的发展已大大支持了那些病残的人。要求索赔人经过通常被称为“侮辱性”的医学检查和复杂的官僚程序的过程，以证明受惠的权利。Gulland的案文为当前系统的架构提供了关键的历史背景，该系统的前提是``利用社会控制机制来规范索赔人的生活''（2019：2）。