Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

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Dustin Galer

Working towards Equity

Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

Dustin Galer

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University of Toronto Press
03 May 2018

Social welfare & social services; Central government policies; Political activism; Disability & the law

In Working towards Equity,

offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.

By: Dustin Galer
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781487521301
ISBN 10: 1487521308
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 03 May 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction 1. Disability Activism, Work and Identity 2. Family Advocacy and the Struggle for Economic Integration 3. Rehabilitation, Awareness Campaigns, and the Pursuit of Employability 4. “A Voice of Our Own”: Disability Rights Activism and Struggle to Work 5. Sheltered Workshops and the Evolution of Disability Advocacy 6. Employers and the Ideological (Re)Construction of the Workplace 7. Rise and Decline of the Activist Canadian State 8. Labour Organizations, Disability Rights, and the Limitations of Social Unionism in Canada Conclusion Bibliography Notes Appendix I: Abbreviations Appendix II: Profile of Interview Participants

Dustin Galer received his PhD in history from the University of Toronto. He is the founder of MyHistorian (www.myhistorian.ca) where he works as a personal historian.

Reviews for Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

This is an ambitious and largely successful book. It deserves a wide readership because of its potential to expand the historiography about work, rights and rights movements, and policy (federal and provincial) - in the style of the new disability history - by bringing a disability analysis to bear on these topics. -- Jason Ellis, University of British Columbia * H-Net Reviews *