The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History

Through a study of the League of the Physically Handicapped, Longmore and Goldberger demonstrate both disabled people's historical agency and disability's historical significance. Fighting job discrimination in New Deal work programs, league members politicized disability by contesting the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2000-12, Vol.87 (3), p.888-922
Hauptverfasser:	Longmore, Paul K., Goldberger, David
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Disabilities Disability Disabled persons Disabled Persons - history Disabled Persons - legislation & jurisprudence Disabled Persons - psychology Economics - history Economics - legislation & jurisprudence Employment Employment - economics Employment - ethics Employment - history Employment - legislation & jurisprudence Employment discrimination History History of medicine History, 20th Century Human Rights - education Human Rights - history Human Rights - legislation & jurisprudence Human Rights - trends Ideology Labor protests Mental depression New Deal People with disabilities Physically disabled persons Political protests Politics Prejudice Social policy Unemployment United States United States Government Agencies United States history
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