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Capitalism & disability : essays by Marta Russell /
"The late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell's various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
Haymarket Books,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Capitalism and the disability rights movement Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra
- I. The Political economy of disability. Marxism and disability
- The new reserve army of labor?
- Disability and capitalist globalization
- A brief history of Wal-Mart and disability discrimination
- II. Civil rights and retreats. Backlash and structural inequality
- What disability civil rights cannot do
- Supreme injustice: disability and the judiciary
- Handicapitalism makes its debut
- III. Disability incarcerated. Disablement, prison, and historical segregation
- Stuck at the nursing home door
- IV. The Social Security complex. Targeting disability
- Between dependence and independence: rethinking a policy wasteland
- V. Beyond ramps. "Crips against war"
- Disability and the war economy
- Un-natural disasters: reflections on Hurricane Katrina
- The affordable, accessible housing crisis
- The United states versus the world
- VI. Body politics: the missing link. Dollars and death: the question of physician-assisted suicide
- Eugenics and the "sole possible economic order."