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Organizing the Blind - The case of ONCE in Spain (Paperback)
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Organizing the Blind - The case of ONCE in Spain (Paperback)
Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
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This book is a case study which narrates the history of the
National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in
1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to other affluent
countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the
Spanish blind enjoy full employment. Furthermore, the average
income of the Spanish blind is higher than that of the sighted. Why
is this so? Why the blind, and not the deaf mute, or any other
group of disabled people? This book shows that ONCE answers these
questions. The book explains ONCE'S origins, the shifting
strategies that the organization has pursued to adapt to an
ever-changing environment, its original goals and the way they have
mutated and been interpreted, its conflicting relationship with an
authoritarian regime, its struggle to find its place in a
democratic regime, and its relations with other groups of disabled
people. A historical narrative, the book lies at the intersection
between disability and organization studies, history and sociology.
It will be of interest to all scholars of disability studies, the
sociology of work, the history of medicine and contemporary Spanish
history.
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