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