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Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Dustin Galer
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Description for Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Paperback. In Working Toward Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JF; JKS; JPQB; LAZ; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In Working Toward Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision ... Read more
In Working Toward Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
1g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781487521301
SKU
V9781487521301
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About Dustin Galer
Dustin Galer received his PhD in history from the University of Toronto. He is the founder of MyHistorian (www.myhistorian.ca) where he works as a personal historian.
Reviews for Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
This is an ambitious and largely successful book. It deserves a wide readership because of its potential to expand the historiography about work, rights and rights movements, and policy (federal and provincial) - in the style of the new disability history - by bringing a disability analysis to bear on these topics.
Jason Ellis, University of British Columbia ... Read more
Jason Ellis, University of British Columbia ... Read more