The industrial revolution -- Pre-industrial work opportunities -- The 1850s to the 1930s -- The dawning of the disability rights movement -- United States disability and employment legistation -- Vocational rehabilitation and supported employment -- The Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA) --...

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Designing our healthier future lives: Bridging science and policy for flexible work: the pervasion of 'cog in the wheel'...

Since the 1990s, several policy instruments have been produced in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to improve accessibility to urban mobility systems, especially for people with disabilities. However, the city still faces important shortcomings in understanding the demands of the population with...

As the hospitality industry continues to grow globally, the development of highly skilled and educated human capital is a major industry challenge. The WHO/World Bank states that 15% of the world's population lives with some form of disability, yet this degree of diversity cannot be found within...

The rate of application for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, as well as the number of beneficiaries has been increasing for the past several decades, threatening the solvency of the SSDI program. One possible remedy is to promote continued employment amongst those...

Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of disability. Since its passage in 1990, debate has raged about whether the statute is doing any good. A steady stream of narrowing court decisions has led some to declare the law a failure. This...

An analysis of provisions -- an exception to copyright and a compulsory licence -- proposed to be introduced into the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, in order to make available to disabled persons copies of copyrighted works in accessible formats. (These provisions have been included in the Indian...

This paper asks whether statutory social insurance programs, which provide contributory tax-based income support to people with disabilities, are compatible with the disability rights movement's ideas. Central to the movement that led to the Americans with Disabilities Act is the insight that...