Capitalism & disability / selected writings by Marta Russell ; edited by Keith Rosenthal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Capitalism and the Disability Rights Movement Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra -- I. The Political Economy of Disability -- Chapter 1: Marxism and Disability -- Chapter 2: The New Reserve Army of Labor? -- Chapter 3: Disability and Capitalist Globalization -- Chapter 4: A Brief History of Wal-Mart and Disability Discrimination -- II. Civil Rights and Retreats -- Chapter 5: Backlash and Structural Inequality -- Chapter 6: What Disability Civil Rights Cannot Do -- Chapter 7: Supreme Injustice: Disability and the Judiciary -- Chapter 8: Handicapitalism Makes Its Debut -- III. Disability Incarcerated -- Chapter 9: Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation -- Chapter 10: Stuck at the Nursing Home Door -- IV. The Social Security Complex -- Chapter 11: Targeting Disability -- Chapter 12: Between Dependence and Independence: Rethinking a Policy Wasteland -- V. Beyond Ramps -- Chapter 13: "Crips Against War" -- Chapter 14: Disability and the War Economy -- Chapter 15: Un-Natural Disasters: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina -- Chapter 16: The Affordable, Accessible Housing Crisis -- Chapter 17: The United States versus the World -- VI. Body Politics: The Missing Link -- Chapter 18: Dollars and Death: The Question of Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Chapter 19: Eugenics and the "Sole Possible Economic Order" -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Current Disability Statistics -- Endnotes -- Index -- Back Cover.

This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.

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