Working towards equity : disability rights activism and employment in late twentieth-century Canada /
In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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Table of 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.