No right to be idle: the invention of disability, 1850-1930
Auteur :
Rose, Sarah
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9781469624891
Date de publication :
3 avr. 2017
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,5 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
647 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labelled as "unproductive citizens". As Sarah F. Rose explains, a perfect storm of public policies, shifting family structures, and economic changes barred workers with disabilities from mainstream workplaces and simultaneously cast disabled people as morally questionable dependents.