Russell and Malhotra relocate disability from individual tragedy, medical deficit or minority exclusion into the political economy of capitalism. The argument begins from the social model but pushes beyond it. Disability is not only produced by inaccessible architecture or prejudicial attitudes; it is produced by labour relations, productivity standards, wage discipline and the capitalist organisation of bodies. The disabled body is not naturally outside labour; it is made marginal by a system that values bodies according to their capacity to generate surplus value under specific conditions. Capitalism disables by defining employability through its own requirements. Bodies that do not fit the pace, discipline, spatial arrangement or profit logic of the workplace become excluded from exploitation, and that exclusion is then misread as incapacity. This reframes accessibility as more than technical accommodation; it becomes a struggle over the social relations that decide what counts as useful, productive, dependent, costly or surplus. Disability becomes a diagnostic aperture into the violence of normality.
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