The politics and experience of disability: a view from the blind side

Issue title: Disability Empowerment

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Miller, Marianne^;

Affiliations: School of Management, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 844000, Richmond, VA 23284-4000 USA

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Abstract: This paper combines literature from the field of management and organizational studies with literature from other social sciences to describe how people with disabilities experience organizational life. A brief history of the education and socialization of blind people in the United States places the discussion within the context of the author's own disability. The paper concludes with a call for research that highlights the experience of people with disabilities who are making the transition from organizational outsider to insider.

Keywords: Disability, Organizational behavior, Socialization, Blindness, Bias

DOI: 10.3233/JVR-1997-9108

Journal: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 57-64, 1997