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

The Americans with Disabilities Act 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. This book offers an assessment of what has actually occurred since the ADA's enactment in 1990. In empirically based articles, contributors from the fields of 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 people with disabilities enter and remain in the workforce. 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. Contents 5 Figures and Tables 9 Preface 11 Introduction The Evolving ADA 21 Part One Road Map to ADA Title I 35 Chapter I A Road Map for ADA Title I Research 37 Chapter II Employing People with Disabilities 69 Chapter III Glass- Ceiling Issues in Employment of People with Disabilities 86 Part Two Implementing ADA Title I Law 119 Chapter IV The Nonevolution of Enforcement under the ADA 121 Chapter V The ADA Employment Discrimination Charge Process 136 Chapter VI Compliance with the ADA and Employment of Those with Mental Disabilities 164 Chapter VII Professional Licensing, Screening for Disabilities, and the ADA 192 Part Three The Economics of ADA Title I 217 Chapter VIII The Economics of the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act 219 Chapter IX Employer Accommodation of Older Workers with Disabilities 246 Chapter X Estimating the Potential Bene¤ ts of the ADA on the Wages and Employment of Persons with Disabilities 276 Part Four Research on Implementation of ADA Title I 301 Chapter XI Genes in the Workplace 303 Chapter XII Occupational Injuries among Workers with Disabilities 333 Chapter XIII Assistive Technology in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act 347 Chapter XIV Attitudes, Behavior, and ADA Title I 374 Part Five Culture and Policy in ADA Title I 403 Chapter XV Bodies and Environments 405 Chapter XVI From Colonization to Civil Rights 430 Chapter XVIII Completing Stories 450 Conclusion ADA at a Crossroads 466 Author Index to the Chapters 472 Subject Index to the Chapters 480 Notes on Contributors 486 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. An assessment of what has occurred since the American with Disabilties Act's enactment in 1990. The book reveals the unsoundness of charges from the right that the ADA will bankrupt industry, and assumptions on the left that it will prove ineffective in helping people enter/remain in the workforce.