This book examines the commodification of labour and overvaluation of economic efficiency along with its influence on disability policy and disabled people. It illuminates continuities between state socialism and postsocialist capitalism, providing a broad critique of contemporary neoliberalism and its impact on individual and collective life.
Teodor Mladenov is currently Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the European Network on Independent Living, and was formerly Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy Research, King’s College London. He is author of Critical Theory and Disability: A Phenomenological Approach (2015, Bloomsbury). In the period 2000–2009, Teodor was actively involved in disabled people’s advocacy for equality and emancipation in Bulgaria.