Working towards Equity : : Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada / / Dustin Galer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Galer, Dustin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

In Working towards 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 of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Disability Activism, Work, and Identity -- Chapter Two. Family Advocacy and the Struggle for Economic Integration -- Chapter Three. Rehabilitation, Awareness Campaigns, and the Pursuit of Employability -- Chapter Four. “A Voice of Our Own”: Disability Rights Activism and the Struggle to Work -- Chapter Five. Sheltered Workshops and the Evolution of Disability Advocacy -- Chapter Six. Employers and the Ideological (Re)Construction of the Workplace -- Chapter Seven. Rise and Decline of the Activist Canadian State -- Chapter Eight. Labour Organizations, Disability Rights, and the Limitations of Social Unionism in Canada -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Profiles of Interview Participants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index