Theme: America’s Recovery: Powered by Inclusion
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the theme this year is "America's Recovery: Powered by Inclusion." The purpose of this observance is to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America's workers with disabilities.
This year is the 76th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month which traces its history back to 1945 when Congress enacted a law declaring the first week in October of each year "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." In 1962, the word "physically" was removed to acknowledge all types of disabilities and then in 1988, Congress expanded the week to a month and changed the name to National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Below is a sampling of LRC books in observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. These books are either available for check out from the LRC or can be accessed online as eBooks through our EBSCOhost eBook database subscription (login credentials are posted on Blackboard under Services or see LRC staff).
eBooks available through EBSCOhost database
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Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany by ISBN: 9780719089244Publication Date: 2014-08-31 -
Disability, Education and Employment in Developing Countries: From Charity to Investment by ISBN: 9781107064065Publication Date: 2015-01-15 -
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by ISBN: 9781608466863Publication Date: 2019-08-06 -
Mploy - a Job Readiness Workbook: Career Skills Development for Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum and with Learning Difficulties by ISBN: 9781785927300Publication Date: 2017-10-19 -
Compensating Wounded Warriors: An Analysis of Injury, Labor Market Earnings, and Disability Compensation Among Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by ISBN: 9780833059314Publication Date: 2012-08-17 -
Job Success for Persons with Developmental Disabilities by ISBN: 9781843109228Publication Date: 2009-08-15 -
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s by ISBN: 9781469624891Publication Date: 2017-04-03 -
Disability and Employer Practices: Research Across the Disciplines by ISBN: 9781501700583Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Books available in the LRC and which are on display during October
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Rebuilding Sergeant Peck: How I put Body and Soul Back Together After Afghanistan by Call Number: DS371.43 .P435 A3 2019ISBN: 9781510740655Publication Date: 2019-05-07 -
Tough As They Come by Call Number: DS371.413 .M55 2015ISBN: 9781101904800Publication Date: 2016-10-25 -
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Social Contract or Special Privilege? by Call Number: H1 .A4 v.549ISBN: 9780761905950Publication Date: January 1997 -
Handicapping America: Barriers to Disabled People by Call Number: handicapping americaISBN: 0060104228Publication Date: 1978-03-01 -
Education for the Disabled in War and Industry: Army hospital schools: A Demonstration for the Education of Disabled in Industry by Call Number: HD7256 .U5 C72 1972ISBN: 0404551106Publication Date: 1972-01-01 -
The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Review of Best Practices by Call Number: HD7256 .U5 J66 1993ISBN: 0814423507Publication Date: 1992-03-14 -
The Meaning of Blindness: Attitudes Toward Blindness and Blind People by Call Number: HV1598 .M64ISBN: 9780253337276Publication Date: 1973-11-01 -
Education and the Many Faces of the Disadvantaged: Cultural and Historical Perspectives by Call Number: LC4091 .B75ISBN: 0471103500Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Some of the information on this page was borrowed from the Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy resources page.