Working towards Equity : : Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada / / Dustin Galer.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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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