Sarah F. Rose is associate professor of history and director of the Disability Studies Minor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Accessible writing and evocative case studies across seven
chronologically and thematically arranged chapters reveal the
well-intentioned but paternalistic operation of early disability
services. Highly recommended."--Choice
An important contribution to the fields of labor history and
disability history."--Journal of American History
Has much to offer historians of labor, disability, poverty, and
public policy. By revealing historical construction of disabled
people's exclusion from the paid labor force, Rose encourages
scholars to think complexly about the meanings of work, the limits
of the status of "worker," and the connections between market-based
labor, social standing, and citizenship in American
history."--LABOR Review
Integrates disability history and labor history to examine how,
during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the
United States, people with disabilities lost access to paid work
and acquired the status of morally questionable dependents in need
of permanent rehabilitation."--Law & Social Inquiry
Rose's scholarship in this book is exemplary. The clarity and
breadth of her arguments are built on a solid foundation of
primary-source material and secondary literature. Will stand as an
important milestone in the maturation of disability history as a
field and will open up promising new areas for further
inquiry."--American Historical Review
Well worth reading. . . Rose's prodigious research. . . .[and] her
reminder of how people with disabilities were integrated into
early-nineteenth-century America can perhaps help families,
employers, and American society reimagine disability and productive
citizenship for the future."--Australasian Journal of American
History
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