Disabling barriers : social movements, disability history, and the law
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- ISBN: 9780774835244 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 0774835249 (Paperback)
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xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2017.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Bringing history and law into disability studies -- Part 1 : Historical debates on work and disability -- Bearing the marks of capital : solidarities and fractures in E.T. Kingsley's British Columbia -- Employers, disabled workers, and the war on attitudes in late twentieth century Canada -- Gender and the value of work in Canadian disability history -- Part 2 : Debates in disability studies -- Dancing with a cane : the public perception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's disability -- Disability in motion : aesthetics, embodiment, sensation, and the emergence of modern vestibular science in the nineteen century -- "Of dark type and poor physique" : law, immigration restriction, and disability in Canada, 1900-30 -- Part 3 : Legal debates -- Battling the warrior-litigator : an exploration of chronic illness and employment discrimination paradigms -- Towards full inclusion : addressing the issue of income inequality for people with disabilities in Canada -- Compensating work-related disability : the theory, politics, and history of the commodification-decommodification dialectic. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Thompson Campus Library | HV 1559 .C3 D63 2017 (Text) | 58500001020999 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |