No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s by Sarah F. Rose

No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s

Sarah F. Rose

398 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as unproductive citizens. Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labo...

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