Accessibility - Americans with Disabilities
A Selected Bibliography

Leavitt, Moses A.
Handicapped Wage Earners: As Studied by a Family Welfare Agency. New York, 1928.
This text discusses the "selling" of the handicapped to small-minded, ill-informed employers.

La Dame, Mary
Employment for the Handicapped: A Study of Placement Agencies for this Group in New York City. New York, 1927.
This text is significant because it is an early example of organized advocacy for the disabled in an era that predates much of the legislation that supported this overlooked minority. Moreover, like the previous text, despite its overall humanistic tone, it is peppered with many of the terms that have become offensive in recent years and in this way shows its antiquity.

Jaffe A.J. and Lincoln H. Day
Disabled Workers in the Labor Market. New Jersey, 1964.
This is text, despite the difference of forty years, which has much the same tone as the La Dame book. It is basically an analysis of the advocacy groups for the disabled, and the conditions under which the disabled work if they work at all. It is interesting to note that this book was published the same year as the enaction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a document that is historically recognized as an early step toward the ADA.

Jacobs, Arthur T.
How to Use Handicapped Workers. New York, 1946.
This book seems to be primarily a guide to employers. It is surprisingly progressive and forward-thinking in its tone. It serves to inform, and to dispel the prevailing myths that surrounded the employment the handicapped in the forties by interpreting the various pertinent legislation. It has a section about the various disabilities, their causes, and the extent to which they impair the worker. It even has a section called, "We're All Handicapped", that reminds the reader that "nobody's perfect.".

Rugh, Jack Leighton
Jobs for the Handicapped. California, 1983.
This is a history of the West San Gabriel Valley Mayors' Committee for Employment of the Handicapped.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook. Washington,D.C., 1992

Bednar, Michael J.
Barrier Free Environments. Washington,D.C., 1977.
This book includes a lot of great photographs and diagrams of handicap accessible buildings. It not only includes pictures of ideal environments, but it shows the opposite many times these photographs are annotated and labeled.

Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
"Disabled Women in America: A Statistical Report Drawn from Census Bureau Data". Washington, D.C., 1984.

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