Visual Impairment and Work

Experiences of Visually Impaired People

Sally French (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-5542-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Sally French has worked in higher education since 1978 and has worked at the University of East London, The Open University (as a tutor and course-writer), The University of Winchester and Hatfield University all in the UK.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Visually impaired people and employment: An historical overview

Chapter 1. Manual work and the workshops

Chapter 2. Professional and commercial work

Part 2: The Stories

Chapter 3. Careers in health, rehabilitation, social work and social care

Chapter 4. Careers in music

Chapter 5. Careers in teaching and computing

Chapter 6. Manual and commercial occupations

Chapter 7. Miscellaneous careers and occupations

Chapter 8. Commonality and diversity: insights from the stories

Recommendations and conclusion

References

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-4724-5542-8 / 1472455428
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-5542-0 / 9781472455420
Zustand	Neuware