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This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Economic inclusion; 3. A closer look at employment; 4. Political inclusion; 5. Social inclusion; 6. Gender, race, ethnicity, and disability; 7. Conclusion.
About the author
Lisa Schur is an Associate Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on disability, employment, corporate culture and political participation, particularly non-standard work arrangements among people with disabilities and the effects of disability and employment on their political participation. Dr Schur is a leading expert on political participation among people with disabilities, having authored or co-authored many articles in this area.Douglas Kruse is a Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has focused on the employment and earnings effects of disability, and the causes, consequences and implications of employee ownership and profit sharing. He has authored, co-authored or edited ten books. He served on the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and New Jersey's State Rehabilitation Council, and is an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.Peter Blanck is a University Professor and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. He is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission and a founding member of Raising the Floor, US. Blanck's recent books include Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy (with Hill, Siegal and Waterstone, 2009), Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America (with Logue, 2010) and Legal Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Analysis of Federal Law (with Goldstein and Myhill, 2013). Blanck is editor, with Robin Malloy, of the Cambridge University Press series Disability Law and Policy.
Summary
People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past decades. This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world, reviewing hundreds of studies and presenting new evidence from analysis of surveys and interviews with disability leaders.
