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Disability Servitude: From Peonage to Poverty
Ruthie-Marie Beckwith
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Description for Disability Servitude: From Peonage to Poverty
Hardback. Disability Servitude traces the history of peonage-unpaid, forced labor-by people with disabilities in public and private institutions. Describing the work they performed and lawsuits filed to get paid, it links that history with the continued segregation and exploitation of workers with disabilities that are paid far less than minimum wage. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFG; JHBL; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
Disability Servitude traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage. For over a century, public and private institutions across the country relied on the unpaid, forced labor of their residents and patients in order to operate. This book describes the work they performed, in some cases for ten or more hours a day, seven days a week, and the lawsuits they brought in an effort to get paid. The impact of those lawsuits included accelerated de-institutionalization, but they fell short of obtaining equal and fair compensation for their plaintiffs. Instead, thousands of resident and patient-workers were replaced by non-disabled employees. ... Read more
Disability Servitude traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage. For over a century, public and private institutions across the country relied on the unpaid, forced labor of their residents and patients in order to operate. This book describes the work they performed, in some cases for ten or more hours a day, seven days a week, and the lawsuits they brought in an effort to get paid. The impact of those lawsuits included accelerated de-institutionalization, but they fell short of obtaining equal and fair compensation for their plaintiffs. Instead, thousands of resident and patient-workers were replaced by non-disabled employees. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137540300
SKU
V9781137540300
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99-15
About Ruthie-Marie Beckwith
Ruthie-Marie Beckwith is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Disability Studies Program at City University of New York, USA.
Reviews for Disability Servitude: From Peonage to Poverty
Disability Servitude tells the history of the end of peonage in American institutions for people with intellectual disabilities. ... a welcome addition to the field of disability studies, treading the line between advocacy and balanced critique with great skill. ... strength of this volume is that it takes a hitherto underexplored area of disability policy and shows how central it ... Read more