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Law Disability

Disabling Barriers

Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law

edited by Ravi Malhotra & Benjamin Isitt

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2017
Category
Disability, Social Policy, People with Disabilities
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774835268
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774835237
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $95.00
  • 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.

Ravi Malhotra's profile page

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.

Benjamin Isitt's profile page

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