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Workbridge at Work, Working with Employers
(2007-04-01)[Excerpt] Including disabled people in the workforce has positive benefits for everyone. It is rare that a significant economic benefit can also be gained whilst addressing a human rights issue. However, this is exactly ... -
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] Through their service provision, advocacy, and organizing work, worker centers are helping to set the political agenda and mobilize a growing constituency to make its voice heard on fundamental labor an immigration ... -
Workforce Excellence: Corporate Initiatives that Include Employees with Disablities
(2005-09-01)[Excerpt] All businesses and organizations are engaged in a “war for talent”. The workforce as a whole will age as employees stay on the job well past today’s standard retirement age. One of the residual effects will be ... -
Workforce Intermediaries: Strategic Connections For Youth With Disabilities
(2005-08-01)[Excerpt] Over the last two decades, landmark legislation, successful initiatives and technological advances have helped improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Although significant strides have been ... -
Working on Disability in Country Programmes
(2007-10-01)[Excerpt] The World Bank estimates that 20% of the world’s poorest people are disabled. This means that disabled people comprise one of the largest single groups of excluded and chronically poor people in the developing ... -
Working Through The Past: Labor and Authoritorian Legacies in Comparative Perspective
(2015-01-01)[Excerpt] Democratization in the developing and post-communist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities ... -
Workplace Accommodations: Low Cost, High Impact
(2007-09-01)[Excerpt] All employees need the right tools and work environment to effectively perform their jobs. Similarly, individuals with disabilities may need workplace adjustments — or accommodations — to maximize the value they ... -
‘Work’ is a Four Letter Word? Disability, Work and Welfare
(2003-12-03)[Excerpt] This chapter suggests that to overcome the problem of disabled people’s ongoing disadvantage in mainstream employment and, therefore, society, a radical alternative strategy is required that poses a direct challenge ... -
World Report on Disability, Chapter 8: Work and Employment
(2011-01-01)Across the world, people with disabilities are entrepreneurs and selfemployed workers, farmers and factory workers, doctors and teachers, shop assistants and bus drivers, artists, and computer technicians (1). Almost all ...
