What is it about?
In this paper, the relationship between the meaning of time and employment from perspective of Black disabled people with an invisible disability is examined. The qualitative study was co-produced with people living with sickle cell. Two focus group discussions and forty-seven interviews were conducted to explore barriers and enablers to employment. The problem of crip time in employment is a long-standing issue for disabled and chronically ill people and arose as a barrier. We found that temporality was experienced as uncertain and impacted on disclosure and requests for reasonable adjustments. Secondly, time was experienced as a problem at work in how it was informed by ableist norms. Lastly, participants gave examples of how they were successful at work by organising time flexibility.
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Why is it important?
This is important because of Artificial Intelligence and ableism at work. We need to ensure that we use Artificial Intelligence to help with flexible time and protect human forms of work.
Perspectives
Legislation must tackle the issue of ableism in employment settings as a form of discrimination, so we move to anti-ableism or post-ableist workplaces. Worryingly, a hyper-ableism in employment points to work that humans will possibly not be able to do unless they get support. Employment is not ensuring human forms of work nor protecting human forms of time to do that work. This will become a bigger issue in the future.
Dr Maria Berghs
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Trapped in time: the problem of crip time in the workplace for chronically ill and disabled people, Disability & Society, September 2026, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2026.2733305.
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