Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive

This book uses the difference model of disability–offering a reconsideration of the construct of disability itself–to offer a framework for more positive and successful relationships between people with disabilities and others within the workplace. This framework offers a practical path toward greater representation and inclusion for people with disabilities within their working environments.

Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, this book is framed around the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. It also examines legal challenges to this discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the effects these challenges have had.

This collection examines how discrimination can occur across the employment process and what can be done to minimize the exclusionary practices that prevent neurodiverse individuals from getting into the workplace—advancing, thriving, and contributing to their working environments. It also provides guidance on how to build a truly inclusive workplace for all employees.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability, providing an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today (including an overview of disability activism). Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas as well as core areas of contention.

This is the first truly global look at the expanse of disability history, incorporating studies from across the globe and bringing together the diverse scholarship of more than thirty experts from across the field. The 27 chapters span world history, from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day.