Working towards equity : disability rights activism and employment in late twentieth-century Canada / Dustin Galer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galer, Dustin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Civil rights--Canada--History--20th century.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada--History--20th century.

People with disabilities--Employment--Canada--History--20th century.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover; Page i; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Disability Activism, Work, and Identity; 2 Family Advocacy and the Struggle for Economic Integration; 3 Rehabilitation, Awareness Campaigns, and the Pursuit of Employability; 4 "A Voice of Our Own": Disability Rights Activism and the Struggle to Work; 5 Sheltered Workshops and the Evolution of Disability Advocacy; 6 Employers and the Ideological (Re)Construction of the Workplace; 7 Rise and Decline of the Activist Canadian State.

8 Labour Organizations, Disability Rights, and the Limitations of Social Unionism in CanadaConclusion; Appendix: Profiles of Interview Participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1292-9

1-4875-1291-0

OCLC:

1035633148