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

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.