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Capitalism and disability / edited by Keith Rosenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Marta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--United States--Social conditions.
- People with disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Other Title:
- Capitalism and disability
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Capitalism and the Disability Rights Movement Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra
- I. The Political Economy of Disability
- Chapter 1: Marxism and Disability
- Chapter 2: The New Reserve Army of Labor?
- Chapter 3: Disability and Capitalist Globalization
- Chapter 4: A Brief History of Wal-Mart and Disability Discrimination
- II. Civil Rights and Retreats
- Chapter 5: Backlash and Structural Inequality
- Chapter 6: What Disability Civil Rights Cannot Do
- Chapter 7: Supreme Injustice: Disability and the Judiciary
- Chapter 8: Handicapitalism Makes Its Debut
- III. Disability Incarcerated
- Chapter 9: Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation
- Chapter 10: Stuck at the Nursing Home Door
- IV. The Social Security Complex
- Chapter 11: Targeting Disability
- Chapter 12: Between Dependence and Independence: Rethinking a Policy Wasteland
- V. Beyond Ramps
- Chapter 13: "Crips Against War"
- Chapter 14: Disability and the War Economy
- Chapter 15: Un-Natural Disasters: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina
- Chapter 16: The Affordable, Accessible Housing Crisis
- Chapter 17: The United States versus the World
- VI. Body Politics: The Missing Link
- Chapter 18: Dollars and Death: The Question of Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Chapter 19: Eugenics and the "Sole Possible Economic Order"
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Current Disability Statistics
- Endnotes
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781608467167
- 1608467163
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