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Rehabilitation for Disabled People: A ‘Sick’ Joke?
(2003-01-01)This paper argues that the relationship between disability and rehabilitation is best explained in terms of three distinct but related definitions of disability. The first is the orthodox ‘individualistic’ medical definition; ... -
Replicating Success: A manual to alleviate poverty through peer training
(2009-01-01)The Alleviating Poverty through Peer Training (APPT) project was one of the ILO’s technical cooperation programmes addressing the prejudices and barriers faced by people with disabilities when accessing training and ... -
Research summary: Anxiety and Depression from Adolescence to Old Age in Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2019-01-01)[Excerpt] Our team recently published a journal article reporting on a study that looked at the relationship between anxiety and depression, age, sex (male, female), and autism symptoms in autistic adults. So far there has ... -
Rethinking Care From the Perspective of Disabled People
(2001-06-01)[Excerpt] Although it is now two decades since the United Nations’ International Year of Disabled People, disabled people across the world still encounter severe economic, cultural and social deprivations. The problem is ... -
Rethinking Disability in the Private Sector: Report from the Panel on Labour Market Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
(2012-01-01)In July 2012, the Government of Canada appointed a panel to consult with private sector employers, as well as other organizations and individuals, on the labour market participation of people with disabilities. The panel ... -
Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
(2012-01-01)[Excerpt] The motivations for and experiences of working in retirement are varied and contradictory. This book explores what work means for people in the United States who are of conventional retirement age. To examine ... -
Return to Work Plan for COVID19
(2020-05-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this document is to describe the nature of arrangements for staff returning to work after COVID19. Throughout the last six months, we have experienced significant events, which have brought unplanned ... -
Réaliser l'égalité des chances des personnes handicapées en matière d'emploi par la législation: Directives
(2007-01-01)On a longtemps admis que le chômage et le sous-emploi des personnes handicapées étaient étroitement liés à leur handicap physique ou mental et à ses répercussions inévitables. Aujourd'hui, on reconnaît que les nombreux ... -
Rights, Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act
(2017-11-15)[Excerpt] This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights ... -
Same Struggle, Different Difference: ADA Accomodations as Antidiscrimination
(2004-12-01)[Excerpt] The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was heralded as an "emancipation proclamation" for people with disabilities, one that would achieve their equality primarily through its reasonable accommodation requirements. ... -
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] So how do we make sense of high-tech production as it emerges in developing countries like the Philippines? What explains the changes and wide variation in how work is organized? What can these changes tell us ... -
Schools Of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
(2006-05-01)In this new political history of the labor movement, Clayton Sinyai examines the relationship between labor activism and the American democratic tradition. Sinyai shows how America’s working people and union leaders debated ... -
Scope of Practice for Rehabilitation Counseling
(2007-07-11)[Excerpt] The Scope of Practice Statement identifies knowledge and skills required for the provision of effective rehabilitation counseling services to persons with physical, mental, developmental, cognitive, and emotional ... -
Selling Hope and College: Merits, Markets, and Recruitment in an Unranked School
(2017-04-25)[Excerpt] It has long been assumed that college admission should be a simple matter of sorting students according to merit, with the best heading off to the Ivy League and highly ranked liberal arts colleges and the rest ... -
Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] This book describes and explains the changing nature of sales through the daily experiences of salespeople, engineers, managers, and purchasing agents who construct markets for emergent technologies through their ... -
Seychelles Country Profile
(2004-03-01)[From Introduction] The country study for Seychelles is part of the ILO project 'Employment of People with Disabilities – the Impact of Legislation', funded by the Government of Ireland, which aims to enhance the capacity ... -
She Was One Of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
(2010-01-01){Excerpt} For Eleanor Roosevelt, helping people achieve better lives by taking individual responsibility and then acting collectively to remedy problems was a cornerstone of democracy, in good and bad economic times, during ...
