The Oregon System of Rehabilitation with a Survey for Additional Placements of Crippled and Disabled
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Date
1938-03
Authors
Learned, Frank Marsh
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
During the last few years, the people of the United States have experienced great social changes, extreme political upheaval, and serious economic maladjustments, which have been the cause and effect of constantly shifting ideas. With these turbulent conditions has come the emphasis upon problems of labor. Never in the history of this country has labor been so prominent in public opinion as it has been in these years period the struggle for domination and organized control has caught the wage earner and businessman in its tentacles, and the results which come from this are still to be written upon the pages of our economic history. Caught in the maelstrom of human activity impressed with the desperate attempt to make a livelihood, is the disabled man and woman. There are those who have been permanently incapacitated while on the job. These we call the industrially disabled. There are countless others who have been crippled due to the accidents at home, in automobiles, while walking, or in some agricultural pursuit. And to this group the appalling number of those who have been crippled since birth, or during the process of childhood, have contracted such dreadful diseases as infantile paralysis, tuberculosis, and others. This group is called the civilian group.
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112 pages
Keywords
industrially disabled, case study, civilian disabled