Disabling Barriers
Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2017
- Category
- Disability, Social Policy, People with Disabilities
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774835268
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774835237
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774835244
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists explore how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to transform their environment by changing the discourse surrounding disablement.
About the authors
Ravi Malhotra is a professor in the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa.
Benjamin Isitt is a historian and legal scholar specializing in the political and legal history of British Columbia’s working class, with previous works including From Victoria to Vladivostok (UBC Press, 2010) and Able to Lead (UBC Press, 2021). He also serves as a city councillor and regional director in Victoria, BC.
Editorial Reviews
Disabled Barriers is an intricate and thorough analysis of the interaction between labour histories and disability rights. The collection introduces a focus that has been largely ignored in the literature but would be quite valuable to researchers of labour and disability studies.
Canadian Law Library Review, Vol. 43, No. 4