Abstract
This chapter investigates how political and legal discourses in state socialist Romania addressed the relationship between disability and labour. In analysing the terminology used in legislation, the chapter traces the ways in which the state socialist regime promoted inclusive policies, at least declaratively. The chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the three constitutions of socialist Romania (of 1948, 1952, and 1965), the Labour Code of 1950 and secondary legislature on social security, labour accidents, and the operation of sheltered workshops/craft cooperatives during the socialist regime. In doing so, it focuses on both the socialist legislation as such and on the philosophy that permeated it. In order to identify how policymakers understood disability, the chapter also explores political reports from the nine Congresses of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) from 1948 to 1989 and discussions during the meetings of the Political Bureau (1945–1965) and the Executive Committee (1965–1989) of the Romanian Communist Party.
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