TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rose,Sarah F.
TI  - No right to be idle: the invention of disability, 1850-1930 
SN  - 9781469624907
AV  - HV1553 .N675 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Employment
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "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 developmentally disabled individuals who had previously contributed domestic or agricultural labor in homes or on farms were being sent to institutions and poorhouses. [The author] pinpoints the origins and ramifications of this sea-change in American society, exploring the ways that public policy removed the disabled from the category of "deserving" recipients of public assistance, transforming them into a group requiring rehabilitation in order to achieve "self-care" and "self-support." By tracing the experiences of advocates, program innovators, and disabled people caught up in this epochal transition, Rose ... integrates disability history and labor history to show how disabled people and their families were relegated to poverty and second-class economic and social citizenship, with vast consequences for debates about disability, poverty, and welfare in the century to come"--
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