Disability Servitude - From Peonage to Poverty (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Disability Servitude traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage. For over a century, public and private institutions across the country relied on the unpaid, forced labor of their residents and patients in order to operate. This book describes the work they performed, in some cases for ten or more hours a day, seven days a week, and the lawsuits they brought in an effort to get paid. The impact of those lawsuits included accelerated de-institutionalization, but they fell short of obtaining equal and fair compensation for their plaintiffs. Instead, thousands of resident and patient-workers were replaced by non-disabled employees. Disability Servitude includes a detailed history of longstanding problems with the oversight of the sub-minimum wage provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act oversight. Beckwith shows how that history has resulted in the continued segregation and exploitation of over 400,000 workers with disabilities in sheltered workshops that legally pay far less than minimum wage.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Ruthie-Marie Beckwith
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-54030-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Promotions
LSN:	1-137-54030-3
Barcode:	9781137540300

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