Disability & Employment: Background

The Encyclopedia of Disability is an award-winning five-volume set from SAGE Reference. It represents the first attempt to bring an authoritative reference resource to the many faces of disability. More than 500 world-renowned scholars have written over 1000 entries, in a clear, accessible style, with the desire to bring all students, researchers, and others closer to the daily experience of disability.

Published by the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, this ebook provides comparisons of labor and employment laws for over 40 countries, as well as information specific to the European Union and NAFTA treaties. Additional topics covered include litigation of international employment disputes, compensation for internationally mobile executives, and negotiation of expatriate employment agreements.

This volume in the SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues involving disability through the life course. With a balance of history, theory, research and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves.

This volume explores issues facing people with disabilities in employment and the work environment. Part of the 8 volume SAGE Reference Series on Disability, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.

This book addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but investigates issues around pain and invisible disabilities as well.

Basic consumer health information for people with disabilities and their caregivers about impairments caused by birth defects, sensory and communication disorders, learning disabilities, chronic illness, injury, and trauma, along with facts about assistive technologies, special education and legal, employment, and financial issues. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.