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Galer, Dustin.

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"Hire the Handicapped!" Disability rights, economic integration and working lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Hire the Handicapped!" Disability rights, economic integration and working lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005./
Author:	Galer, Dustin.
Description:	471 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-04A(E).
Subject:	History, Canadian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3666598
ISBN:	9781321396904

"Hire the Handicapped!" Disability rights, economic integration and working lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005.
Galer, Dustin.

"Hire the Handicapped!" Disability rights, economic integration and working lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005. - 471 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation, "'Hire the Handicapped!': Disability Rights, Economic Integration and Working Lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005," argues that work significantly shaped the experience of disability during this period. Barriers to mainstream employment opportunities gave rise to multiple disability movements that challenged the social and economic framework which marginalized generations of people with disabilities. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, I demonstrate how demands for greater access among disabled people to paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Including disability as a variable in historical research reveals how family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community and rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Separated by different philosophies and bases of support, disability activists and allies found a common purpose in their pursuit of economic integration.

ISBN: 9781321396904Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017564
History, Canadian.

"Hire the Handicapped!" Disability rights, economic integration and working lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005.
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