Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction : the evolving ADA / Paul Steven Miller -- A road map for ADA Title I research / Scott Burris and Kathryn Moss -- Employing people with disabilities : some cautionary thoughts for a second-generation civil rights statute / Michael Ashley Stein -- Glass-ceiling issues in employment of people with disabilities / Wendy Wilkinson and Lex Frieden -- The nonevolution of enforcement under the ADA : discharge cases and the hiring problem / Steven L. Willborn -- The ADA employment discrimination charge process : how does it work and whom is it benefiting? / Kathryn Moss -- Compliance with the ADA and employment of those with mental disabilities / Teresa L. Scheid -- Professional licensing, screening for disabilities, and the ADA / Stanley S. Herr -- The economics of the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act : workplace accommodations / Peter David Blanck -- Employer accommodation of older workers with disabilities : some empirical evidence and policy lessons / Thomas N. Chirikos -- Estimating the potential benefits of the ADA on the wages and employment of persons with disabilities / Marjorie L. Baldwin -- Genes in the workplace : new frontiers for ADA law, policy, and research / Robert S. Olick -- Occupational injuries among workers with disabilities / Craig Zwerling, Nancy L. Sprince, Charles S. Davis, Robert B. Wallace, Paul S. Whitten, and Steven G. Heeringa -- Assistive technology in the workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act / Heidi M. Berven and Peter David Blanck -- Attitudes, behavior, and ADA Title I / Mollie Weighner Marti and Peter David Blanck -- Bodies and environments : the cultural construction of disability / Douglas C. Baynton -- From colonization to civil rights : people with disabilities and gainful employment / Karen Hirsch -- Avoiding iron-door barriers to the employment of persons with developmental disabilities / Thomas Walz and Lea Anne Boucher -- Completing stories / Steven Thunder-McGuire -- Conclusion : ADA at a crossroads / Marca Bristo.