Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiii, 382 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. 1800-1999
2. People with disabilities > History. > United States
3. People with disabilities > United States > History
4. People with disabilities > History > United States > 19th century
5. People with disabilities > History > United States > 20th century
6. Marginality, Social > United States > History > 19th century
7. Marginality, Social > United States > History > 20th century
8. Disabled Persons > history
9. Disabled Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
10. Employment > history
11. Civil Rights > history
12. Socioeconomic Factors > history
13. Social Marginalization > history
14. Public Policy > history
15. Marginality, Social
16. People with disabilities > Civil rights
17. People with disabilities > Employment
18. People with disabilities > Government policy
19. People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc
20. People with disabilities > Public opinion
21. People with disabilities > Rehabilitation
22. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: ch. One Her Mother Did Not Like to Have Her Learn to Work: Disability, Family, and the Spectrum of Productivity, 1840s -- 1870s -- ch. Two He Had No Home but the County Poor House: Family Incapacity, Charity Policy, Wage Labor, and the Shift to Custodial Care, 1870s -- 1900s -- ch. Three I Wish to Thank You for My Freedom: Paroling Feeble-Minded People into Farm and Domestic Work, 1900s -- 1930s -- ch. Four We Do Not Prefer Cripples, but They Can Earn Full Wages: Mechanization, Efficiency, and the Quest for Interchangeable Workers, 1880s -- 1920s -- ch. Five The Greatest Handicap Suffered by Crippled Workers: The Perverse Impact of Workmen's Compensation, 1900s -- 1930s -- ch. Six Saving the Human Wreckage Cast on the Industrial Scrap Heap: Goodwill Industries and the Imperative of Efficiency, 1890s -- 1920s -- ch. Seven The Duty to Make Himself a Useful, Self-Supporting Citizen: Disabled Veterans and the Limits of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1910s -- 1920s.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-367) and index.