Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Blind Workers Against Charity
Download Blind Workers Against Charity full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Blind Workers Against Charity ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Blind Workers against Charity by : M. Reiss
Download or read book Blind Workers against Charity written by M. Reiss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them.
Book Synopsis Visual Impairment and Work by : Sally French
Download or read book Visual Impairment and Work written by Sally French and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day. It gives a voice to visually impaired people to talk about their working lives and documents the history of employment from their experience, an approach which is severely lacking in the current literature about visual impairment and employment. By analysing fifty in-depth face-to-face interviews with visually impaired people talking about their working lives (featuring those who have worked in traditional jobs such as telephony, physiotherapy and piano tuning, to those who have pursued more unusual occupations and professions), and grouping them according to occupation and framed by documentary, historical research, these stories can be situated in their broader political, economic, ideological and cultural contexts. The themes that emerge will help to inform present day policy and practice within a context of high unemployment amongst visually impaired people of working age. It is part of a growing literature which gives voice to disabled people about their own lives and which adds to the growing academic discipline of disability studies and the empowerment of disabled people.
Book Synopsis The Blind in British Society by : Gordon Ashton Phillips
Download or read book The Blind in British Society written by Gordon Ashton Phillips and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its starting point the establishment, in the late 18th century, of philanthropic institutions for the blind, this book traces the development and conduct of voluntary charities for the visually impaired to the first decades of the 20th century. As well as examining the policies and administration of charitable bodies, it also considers external influences - intellectual, social and economic - which shaped their character and practice. Through this detailed study of a single class of disabled person, a considerable contribution is made to the wider literature on the 'mixed economy of welfare' and the history of charity generally. The proper place of the disabled in their society was an issue under discussion throughout the period covered by this book; and it was a question that always aroused uncertainties and disagreements. A systematic historical study of attitudes towards the blind reveals much about the experience of physical disability and society's shifting responses to it.
Book Synopsis Colonising Disability by : Esme Cleall
Download or read book Colonising Disability written by Esme Cleall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall explores how disability increasingly became associated with 'difference' and argues that it did so through intersecting with other categories of otherness such as race. Philanthropic, legal, literary, religious, medical, educational, eugenistic and parliamentary texts are examined to unpick representations of disability that, overtime, became pervasive with significant ramifications for disabled people. Cleall also uses multiple examples to show how disabled people navigated a wide range of experiences from 'freak shows' in Britain, to missions in India, to immigration systems in Australia, including exploring how they mobilised to resist discrimination and constitute their own identities. By assessing the intersection between disability and race, Dr Cleall opens up questions about 'normalcy' and the making of the imperial self.
Book Synopsis The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity by : Kasper Braskén
Download or read book The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity written by Kasper Braskén and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in their liberation and resistance movements and how solidarity networks transferred visions and ideas of an alternative global community.
Book Synopsis Spectacles and the Victorians by : Gemma Almond-Brown
Download or read book Spectacles and the Victorians written by Gemma Almond-Brown and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists’ attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.
Author :Great Britain. Local Government Board. Committee on the Welfare of the Blind Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :628 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Report of the Department Committee on the Welfare of the Blind [and ... by : Great Britain. Local Government Board. Committee on the Welfare of the Blind
Download or read book Report of the Department Committee on the Welfare of the Blind [and ... written by Great Britain. Local Government Board. Committee on the Welfare of the Blind and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland by : Elizabeth Grubgeld
Download or read book Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland written by Elizabeth Grubgeld and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to examine life writing and disability in the context of Irish culture. It will be valuable to readers interested in Disability Studies, Irish Studies, autobiography and life writing, working-class literature, popular culture, and new media. Ranging from Sean O’Casey’s 1939 childhood memoir to contemporary blogging practices, Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland analyzes a century of autobiographical writing about the social, psychological, economic, and physical dimensions of living with disabilities. The book examines memoirs of sight loss with reference to class and labor conditions, the harrowing stories of residential institutions and the advent of the independent living movement, and the autobiographical fiction of such acknowledged literary figures as Christy Brown and playwright Stewart Parker. Extending the discussion to the contemporary moment, popular genres such as the sports and celebrity autobiography are explored, as well as such newer phenomena as blogging and self-referential performance art.
Book Synopsis Biennial Report of the State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable, and Penal Institutions by : Wisconsin. State Board of Control
Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable, and Penal Institutions written by Wisconsin. State Board of Control and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of the several state institutions.
Book Synopsis -(Twenty-eighth) Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Blind, Brantford ... by : Ontario. Institution for the Education of the Blind, Brantford
Download or read book -(Twenty-eighth) Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Blind, Brantford ... written by Ontario. Institution for the Education of the Blind, Brantford and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woeful Afflictions written by Mary Klages and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tiny Tim to Helen Keller, disabled people in the nineteenth century were portrayed in sentimental terms, as afflicted beings whose sufferings afforded ablebodied people opportunities to practice empathy and compassion. In all kinds of representations of disability, from popular fiction to the reports of institutions established for the education and rehabilitation of disabled people, the equation of disability and sentimentality served a variety of social functions, from ensuring the continued existence of a sympathetic sensibility in a hard-hearted, market-driven world, to asserting the selfhood and equality of disabled adults. Unique in its focus on blindness and its examination of the interplay between institutional discourse and popular literature, Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals from the 1830s through the 1890s in the United States. Woeful Afflictions combines contemporary scholarship on sentimentalism with the most recent works on the cultural meanings of disability to argue that sentimentalism, with its emphasis on creating emotional identifications between texts and readers, both reinforces existing associations between disability and otherness and works to rewrite those associations in portraying disabled people, in their emotional capacities, as no different from the ablebodied. This book will interest anyone concerned with disability studies and the social construction of the body, with the history of education and of public institutional care in the United States, and with autobiographical writings.
Download or read book Charities and the Commons written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blind People written by Shlomo Deshen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, much the way anthropology approaches people of different culture. While deeply empathic to its subject matter, Blind People raises questions that anthropologists ask routinely, but which are commonly avoided in everyday life because they touch on sensitive matters. Based on fieldwork in Israel, the book constitutes an ethnography of blind Israelis. It starts by focusing on intimate issues of the management of the sightless body, goes on to discuss the role of the blind person in the domestic setting, and moves to issues of how the blind person strives to attain material requirements. Finally, the book relates the way blind people cope with problems of associating with both blind and sighted people in arenas of leisure activity and public affairs. Deshen's book aims to present a truthful, dignified, fully human depiction, in the tradition of socio-cultural anthropology.
Download or read book The New Outlook for the Blind written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlook for the Blind written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A European Youth Revolt by : Bart van der Steen
Download or read book A European Youth Revolt written by Bart van der Steen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early 1980s, large parts of Europe were swept with riots and youth revolts. Radicalised young people occupied buildings and clashed with the police in cities such as Zurich, Berlin and Amsterdam, while in Great Britain and France, 'migrant' youths protested fiercely against their underprivileged position and police brutality. Was there a link between the youth revolts in different European cities, and if so, how were they connected and how did they influence each other? These questions are central in this volume. This book covers case studies from countries in both Eastern and Western Europe and focuses not only on political movements such as squatting, but also on political subcultures such as punk, as well as the interaction between them. In doing so, it is the first historical collection with a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective on youth, youth revolts and social movements in the 1980s.
Book Synopsis Regions, Industries, and Heritage. by : Juliane Czierpka
Download or read book Regions, Industries, and Heritage. written by Juliane Czierpka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial age has proved to be a formative period for Europe. Industrial heritage nowadays bears witness to the development that took place in differently structured regions. This volume presents different paths of industrial development and gives an overview of the concepts of regions, used among economic, social and cultural historians.
