Americans with Disabilities Act
- ISBN-10
- 1608700399
- ISBN-13
- 9781608700394
- Category
- Discrimination against people with disabilities
- Pages
- 143
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish
- Author
- Susan Dudley Gold
Description
Describes the history of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, including how people with disabilities and their supporters fought over the decades to win civil rights and how the piece of legislation became a law.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Disability Discrimination Act Action Plans: A Guide for Business
By Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity CommissionDisability Discrimination Act Action Plans: A Guide for Business
-
You can act against disability discrimination: Disability Discrimination Act
By Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity CommissionYou can act against disability discrimination: Disability Discrimination Act
-
Disablism: How to Tackle the Last Prejudice
By Paul Miller, Sophia Parker, Sarah GillinsonThe disability lobby has successfully pushed for discrimination to be outlawed but 'institutional disablism' will not be stamped out without a political commitment to changing public attitudes, according to a new report from Demos called ...
-
K665: The Disabling Society. dismantling the barriers. Workbook 3
By Sally French, John Swain, Open UniversityThis workbook focuses on the support systems provided for disabled people by the state, charities, the general public, family and social networks and by professionals.
-
Human Rights: Disability Issues : Materials Prepared for the Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Human Rights, Disability Issues, Held in Vancouver,...
By Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, Frances M. Kelly, B. L. AdellHuman Rights: Disability Issues : Materials Prepared for the Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Human Rights, Disability Issues, Held in Vancouver,...
-
Women, Disability, and Culture
By Anna SiriThe book seeks to pay the right attention to the condition of women with disabilities, offering points for reflection, also on the different, often invisible, cultural and social undertones that continue today to feed into prejudicial ...
-
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaAn empowering collection of essays on the author's experiences in the disability justice movement.
-
Rechtliche Instrumente zur Durchsetzung von Barrierefreiheit
By Felix, Welti... einzige – große Studie zum Markt- potential der Barrierefreiheit, die vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie herausgegebene Studie „Ökonomische Impulse eines barrierefreien Tourismus für alle“,106 postuliert zwar auf ...
-
K665: The Disabling Society. Disability - changing practice: home study text
By Victor FinkelsteinThis workbook introduces the main topics in the course disability - changing practice, part of K665.
-
K665: The Disabling Society. being disabled. Workbook 1
By John Swain, Open University, Open University. Department of Health and Social WelfareThis workbook examines the meaning and image of disability. A course at second level.