Employment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Issues in Law, Public Policy, and Research

by Peter David Blanck

Overview

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) was heralded by its congressional sponsors as an "emancipation proclamation" for people with disabilities and as the most important civil rights legislation passed in a generation. Employment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act offers a meticulously documented assessment of what has occurred since the ADA's enactment. In reasoned, empirically based articles, contributors from law, health policy, government, and business reveal the unsoundness of charges from the right that the ADA will bankrupt industry and assumptions on the left that the ADA will prove ineffective in helping those with disabilities enter and remain in the workforce.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810116894
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2001
Series:	Psychosocial Issues Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Peter David Blanck is a professor of law, psychology, and preventive medicine at the University of Iowa. His publications include Genetic Discrimination and the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act: Emerging Legal, Empirical, and Policy Implications; Interpersonal Expectations: Theory, Research, and Applications; and Nonverbal Communication in the Clinical Context.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface

Part One: Road Map to ADA Title I

Chapter I. A Road Map for ADA Title I Research
Scott Burris and Kathryn Moss

Chapter II. Employing People with Disabilities: Some Cautionary Thoughts for a Second-Generation Civil Rights Statute
Michael Ashley Stein

Chapter III. Glass-Ceiling Issues in Employment of People with Disabilities
Wendy Wilkinson and Lex Frieden

Part Two: Implementing ADA Title I Law

Chapter IV. The Nonevolution of Enforcement under the ADA: Discharge Cases and the Hiring Problem
Steven L. Willborn

Chapter V. The ADA Employment Discrimination Charge Process: How Does It Work and Whom Is It Benefitting?
Kathryn Moss

Chapter VI. Compliance with the ADA and Employment of Those with Mental Disabilities
Teresa L. Scheid

Chapter VII. Professional Licensing, Screening for Disabilities, and the ADA
Stanley S. Herr

Part Three: The Economics of ADA Title I

Chapter VIII. The Economics of the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act: Workplace Accommodations
Peter David Blanck

Chapter IX. Employer Accommodation of Older Workers with Disabilities: Some Empirical Evidence and Policy Lessons
Thomas N. Chirikos

Chapter X. Estimating the Potential Benefits of the ADA on the Wages and Employment of Persons with Disabilities
Marjorie L. Baldwin

Part Four: Research on Implementation of ADA Title I

Chapter XI. Genes in the Workplace: New Frontiers for ADA Law, Policy, and Research
Robert S. Olick

Chapter XII. Occupational Injuries among Workers with Disabilities
Craig Zwerling, Nancy L. Sprince, Charles S. Davis, Robert B. Wallace, Paul S. Whitten, and Steven G. Herringa

Chapter XIII. Assistive Technology in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Heidi M. Berven and Peter David Blanck

Chapter XIV. Attitudes, Behavior, and ADA Title I
Mollie Weighner Marti and Peter David Blanck

Part Five: Culture and Policy in ADA Title I​ 

Chapter XV. Bodies and Environments: The Cultural Construction of Disability
Douglas C. Baynton

Chapter XVI. From Colonization to Civil Rights: People with Disabilities and Gainful Employment
Karen Hirsch

Chapter XVII. Avoiding Iron-Door Barriers to the Employment of Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Tom Walz and Lea Anne Boucher

Chapter XVIII. Completing Stories
Steve Thunder-McGuire

Conclusion. ADA at a Crossroads
Marca Bristo

Author Index to the Chapters
Subject Index to the Chapters
Notes on Contributors

Editorial Reviews

A decade after passage of the ADA, a backlash has grown against disability law and policy implementation; some critics say the law should be rewritten to protect only people with "genuine" disabilities, and others argue that there's little evidence the law has increased workplace participation for people with disabilities. This volume addresses such concerns by examining employment, disability, and implementation of the ADA, with an emphasis on clearing up myths and misconceptions. The editor notes that its contributors<-->academics, administrators, and disabled people representing law, medicine, psychology, economics, social work, education, and other disciplines<-->reflect a paradigm shift in disability policy toward individual and civil rights, equal participation in the democratic process, and self-determination. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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