Enabling and disabling: Disability in the British and Dutch construction sectors

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 555-566

  Clarke, Linda ^a   van der Meer, Marc ^b   Bingham, Cecilie ^a   Michielsens, Elisabeth ^a   Miller, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disability; Discrimination; Health and safety; Netherlands; Policy; UK

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; DISCRIMINATION; HEALTH AND SAFETY; NETHERLANDS; POLICY; UK;

EMPLOYMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DISABILITY; LABOR PARTICIPATION; MODELING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STAKEHOLDER;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 68049128352     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190902977445     Document Type: Article

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