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No right to be idle : the invention of disability, 1840s-1930s / Sarah F. Rose.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rose, Sarah F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Government policy--United States--History.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--United States--Public opinion--History.
- People with disabilities--Rehabilitation--United States--History.
- People with disabilities--Employment--United States--History.
- People with disabilities--Civil rights--United States--History.
- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--19th century.
- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--20th century.
- Marginality, Social--United States--History--19th century.
- Marginality, Social.
- Marginality, Social--United States--History--20th century.
- People with disabilities--Civil rights.
- People with disabilities--Employment.
- People with disabilities--Government policy.
- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- People with disabilities--Public opinion.
- People with disabilities--Rehabilitation.
- History.
- Public opinion.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 382 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were being fired, and developmentally disabled individuals who had previously contributed domestic or agricultural labor in homes or on farms were being sent to institutions and poorhouses. [The author] pinpoints the origins and ramifications of this sea-change in American society, exploring the ways that public policy removed the disabled from the category of "deserving" recipients of public assistance, transforming them into a group requiring rehabilitation in order to achieve "self-care" and "self-support." By tracing the experiences of advocates, program innovators, and disabled people caught up in this epochal transition, Rose ... integrates disability history and labor history to show how disabled people and their families were relegated to poverty and second-class economic and social citizenship, with vast consequences for debates about disability, poverty, and welfare in the century to come"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469630083
- 1469630087
- 9781469624891
- 1469624893
- OCLC:
- 949669599
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