Following up on some other recent posts on books I'm looking forward to seeing this spring (like Sarah Roth's Gender and Race in Antebellum America) I want to mention an edited volume by Jody Heymann, Michael Ashley Stein, and Gonzalo Moreno, Disability and Equity at Work. Cribbing now from the description at Oxford University Press' webpage:
Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities. In OECD countries, the employment rate of persons with disabilities was just over 40%, compared to 75% for persons without a disability; in many low- and middle-income countries, the employment rates are even lower.
There are numerous reasons why persons with disabilities fare poorly in the labor market; Disability and Equity at Work is the first book to document what can be done to improve this imbalance.
A preview is available at books.google.
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