Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace

by Ruth O'Brien

Book Overview

Crippled Justice, the first comprehensive intellectual history of disability policy in the workplace from World War II to the present, explains why American employers and judges, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, have been so resistant to accommodating the disabled in the workplace. Ruth O'Brien traces the origins of this resistance to the postwar disability policies inspired by physicians and psychoanalysts that were based on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226616606
• ISBN13: 9780226616605
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"