1st Edition
Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Introduction: Disability and Labour in Modern Societies
Radu Harald Dinu and Staffan Bengtsson
Chapter One – The Right to Work: Disability Awareness and Activism in Twentieth-Century Canada
Dustin Galer
Chapter Two – Gendered Labour and Consumer Culture in the Multiple Sclerosis Associations in Sweden and West Germany
Ylva Söderfeldt
Chapter Three – ‘Salaries, Not Benefits!’ Disability Rights Activism and the Right to Work in the Scandinavian Welfare States
Anna Derksen
Chapter Four – For Society and the Individual: Disability and Work in Post-War Sweden
Staffan Bengtsson
Chapter Five – From Industrialised to Knowledge-Based Societies: The Metamorphosis of the French Disabled Worker since 1957
Cristina Popescu
Chapter Six – Warriors into Workers: Soviet Labour Policy and Disabled Veterans of the Great Patriotic War
Frances Bernstein
Chapter Seven – Beyond Labour: Socialist Disability Policy in the Realm of Mental Health
Ina Dimitrova
Chapter Eight – Socialist Humanism, Work, and Disability in Socialist Romania: The Legal Regime of the Third-Degree Invalidity Pension, 1949–1989
Cristina Diac
Chapter Nine – Becoming a Productive Citizen: Labour and the Blind Community in Socialist Romania
Radu Harald Dinu
Chapter Ten – Vocational Guidance in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the Context of Global and National Histories of Disability
Victoria Shmidt
Chapter Eleven – Work and Life Courses of Polio Survivors in Socialist Poland
Marcin Stasiak
Afterword
Monika Baár
Biography
Radu Harald Dinu is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden. His research focusses on modern and contemporary history of Eastern Europe and covers a wide range of themes, from the history of fascism to how communism shaped experiences of disability in Eastern Europe.
Staffan Bengtsson is Assistant Professor of Social Work and Associate Professor of Disability Research at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Sweden. At the centre of his ongoing research stands disability as a societal phenomenon in relation to various theoretical perspectives and models, in which sociocultural dimensions are accentuated in connection to religious and ideological value systems.
