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No right to be idle : the invention of disability, 1840s-1930s / Sarah F. Rose.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rose, Sarah F., author.
Contributor:
EBSCOhost.
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
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.
Disabled Persons--history.
Persons with Disabilities--legislation & jurisprudence.
Health Services for Persons with Disabilities--history.
Public Policy--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
History.
People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
People with disabilities--Civil rights.
People with disabilities--Employment.
People with disabilities--Rehabilitation.
Public opinion.
People with disabilities--Government policy.
United States.
Medical Subjects:
Disabled Persons--history.
Persons with Disabilities--legislation & jurisprudence.
Health Services for Persons with Disabilities--history.
Public Policy--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2017]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One. Her Mother Did Not Like to Have Her Learn to Work: Disability, Family, and the Spectrum of Productivity, 1840s-1870s
Chapter Two. He Had No Home but the County Poor House: Family Incapacity, Charity Policy, Wage Labor, and the Shift to Custodial Care, 1870s-1900s
Chapter Three. I Wish to Thank You for My Freedom: Paroling Feeble-Minded People into Farm and Domestic Work, 1900s-1930s
Chapter Four. We Do Not Prefer Cripples, but They Can Earn Full Wages: Mechanization, Efficiency, and the Quest for Interchangeable Workers, 1880s-1920s
Chapter Five. The Greatest Handicap Suffered by Crippled Workers: The Perverse Impact of Workmen's Compensation, 1900s-1930s
Chapter Six. Saving the Human Wreckage Cast on the Industrial Scrap Heap: Goodwill Industries and the Imperative of Efficiency, 1890s-1920s
Chapter Seven. The Duty to Make Himself a Useful, Self-Supporting Citizen: Disabled Veterans and the Limits of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1910s-1920s
Conclusion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-367) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9781469624914
1469624915
Publisher Number:
99984962765
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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