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Integrates disability history and labor history to examine how, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, people with disabilities lost access to paid work and acquired the status of morally questionable dependents in need of permanent rehabilitation.--Law & Social Inquiry Accessible writing and evocative case studies across seven chronologically and thematically arranged chapters reveal the well-intentioned but paternalistic operation of early disability services. Highly recommended.--Choice

Accessible writing and evocative case studies across seven chronologically and thematically arranged chapters reveal the well-intentioned but paternalistic operation of early disability services. Highly recommended.--Choice Integrates disability history and labor history to examine how, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, people with disabilities lost access to paid work and acquired the status of morally questionable dependents in need of permanent rehabilitation.--Law & Social Inquiry Rose's scholarship in this book is exemplary. The clarity and breadth of her arguments are built on a solid foundation of primary-source material and secondary literature. Will stand as an important milestone in the maturation of disability history as a field and will open up promising new areas for further inquiry.--American Historical Review Well worth reading. . . Rose's prodigious research. . . .[and] her reminder of how people with disabilities were integrated into early-nineteenth-century America can perhaps help families, employers, and American society reimagine disability and productive citizenship for the future.--Australasian Journal of American History An important contribution to the fields of labor history and disability history.--Journal of American History Has much to offer historians of labor, disability, poverty, and public policy. By revealing historical construction of disabled people's exclusion from the paid labor force, Rose encourages scholars to think complexly about the meanings of work, the limits of the status of worker, and the connections between market-based labor, social standing, and citizenship in American history.--LABOR Review

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Sarah F. Rose is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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