Factors in Studying Employment for Persons with Disability

This collection examines less frequently anaylzed aspects of employment for persons with disabilities, offering a variety of approaches to the conceptualization of work, and how it differs across cultures, organizations, and types of disability.

About the author

Barbara M. Altman, PhD, is a sociologist and consultant at the National Center for Health Statistics, USA, where she was previously Special Assistant on Disability Statistics to the office of the Director. She previously held roles at the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, USA and served on the Washington Group, working under the auspices of the United Nations to develop culturally compatible measures of disability for international use. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on disability and in 2014 was recipient of the ASA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Disability.

Product details

• Assisted by: Barbara Altman (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2017
• EAN: 9781787146068
• ISBN: 978-1-78714-606-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 585 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)