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No Right to Be Idle : The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s /
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were being fired, and deve...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Her Mother Did Not Like to Have Her Learn to Work: Disability, Family, and the Spectrum of Productivity, 1840s-1870s
- Chapter Two. He Had No Home but the County Poor House: Family Incapacity, Charity Policy, Wage Labor, and the Shift to Custodial Care, 1870s-1900s
- Chapter Three. I Wish to Thank You for My Freedom: Paroling Feeble-Minded People into Farm and Domestic Work, 1900s-1930s
- Chapter Four. We Do Not Prefer Cripples, but They Can Earn Full Wages: Mechanization, Efficiency, and the Quest for Interchangeable Workers, 1880s-1920s
- Chapter Five. The Greatest Handicap Suffered by Crippled Workers: The Perverse Impact of Workmen's Compensation, 1900s-1930s
- Chapter Six. Saving the Human Wreckage Cast on the Industrial Scrap Heap: Goodwill Industries and the Imperative of Efficiency, 1890s-1920s
- Chapter Seven. The Duty to Make Himself a Useful, Self-Supporting Citizen: Disabled Veterans and the Limits of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1910s-1920s
- Conclusion.