Editing Disability studies (section)

=== Political economy and social class ===
Within class comes multiple avenues for intersectionality through disability. Disability looks different from a middle class, upper class, and lower class perspective, as well as through race, gender, and ethnicity. One's social class can contribute to when a person becomes disabled, rather it be sooner or later.<ref name=Kafer13>{{Cite book |author-link=Alison Kafer |last=Kafer |first=Alison |title=Feminist, Queer, Crip |date=2013 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00941-8 |oclc=846495065 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4X6yaiCNOcC&q=Feminist,+Queer,+Crip&pg=PP2}}</ref> For example, where there is poverty we will find disability.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zYEDQAAQBAJ&q=Disability+Studies:+An+Interdisciplinary+Introduction&pg=PP1|title=Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction|last=Goodley|first=Dan|date=2016 |publisher=Sage|isbn=978-1-4739-8693-0 }}</ref> This poverty can include social, economic, and cultural poverty. Having a disability can contribute to poverty just as poverty can contribute to having a disability.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Poverty and Disability: A Survey of the Literature|last=Elwan|first=Ann|year=1999}}</ref> People with disabilities are more likely to live in poverty and be unemployed than those who do not, resulting in lower socioeconomic status.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/disability.aspx|title=Disability & Socioeconomic Status|website=apa.org |access-date=2018-10-07}}</ref> Some scholars have argued that disability, as it is understood today, is interlocked with class and capitalism.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russell|first=Marta|title=Beyond ramps: Disability at the end of the social contract: A warning from an Uppity Crip|publisher=Common Courage Press|year=1998|location=Monroe}}</ref><ref name=Withers12 /> Intellectual disability, as it is understood today, is the product of the industrial revolution as workers unable to keep up with fast-paced factory work were pathologized.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Harder|first1=Henry G.|title=Comprehensive Disability Management|last2=Scott|first2=Henry G|publisher=Elsevier Science|year=2005|location=Philadelphia}}</ref>

Robert McRuer challenges hegemonic, neoliberal capitalism as the agent that drives the dominant cultural and market priorities and further argues that capitalism drives compulsory able-bodiedness.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McRuer |first=Robert |date=2007 |title=Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability |url=https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/60/60 |journal=Disability Studies Quarterly |volume=27 |issue=4 }}</ref>  In ''Feminist, Queer, Crip'', Alison Kafer states "My goal is to contextualize, historically and politically, the meanings typically attributed to disability, thereby positioning "disability" as a set of practices and associations that can be critiqued, contested, and transformed."<ref name=Kafer13/>