Working towards Equity – Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twen…

Working towards Equity\nby Dustin Galer\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Dustin Galer\nTitle: Working towards Equity\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Disability and the law\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487521301\nISBN-10: 1487521308\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped peopl.