In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major
transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people
with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized,
excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory
workers were being fired, and developmentally disabled individuals
who had previously contributed domestic or agricultural labor in
homes or on farms were being sent to institutions and poorhouses.
In this book, Sarah F. Rose pinpoints the origins and ramifications
of this sea change in American society, exploring the ways that
public policy removed the disabled from the category of
""deserving"" recipients of public assistance, transforming them
into a group requiring rehabilitation in order to achieve
""self-care"" and ""self-support."" By tracing the experiences of
advocates, program innovators, and disabled people caught up in
this epochal transition, Rose masterfully integrates disability
history and labor history. She shows how disabled people and their
families were relegated to poverty and second-class economic and
social citizenship. This has vast consequences for debates about
disability, poverty, and welfare in the century to come.
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