Table of Contents
Editor's Preface vii
Introduction: Capitalism and the Disability Rights Movement Maria Russell Ravi Malhotra 1
I The Political Economy of Disability
Chapter 1 Marxism and Disability 12
Chapter 2 The New Reserve Army of Labor? 23
Chapter 3 Disability and Capitalist Globalization 33
Chapter 4 A Brief History of Wal-Mart and Disability Discrimination 37
II Civil Rights and Retreats
Chapter 5 Backlash and Structural Inequality 41
Chapter 6 What Disability Civil Rights Cannot Do 62
Chapter 7 Supreme Injustice: Disability and the Judiciary 74
Chapter 8 Handicapitalism Makes Its Debut 81
III Disability Incarcerated
Chapter 9 Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation 86
Chapter 10 Stuck at the Nursing Home Door 97
IV The Social Security Complex
Chapter 11 Targeting Disability 106
Chapter 12 Between Dependence and Independence: Rethinking a Policy Wasteland 113
V Beyond Ramps
Chapter 13 "Crips Against War" 120
Chapter 14 Disability and the War Economy 126
Chapter 15 Un-Natural Disasters: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina 133
Chapter 16 The Affordable, Accessible Housing Crisis 137
Chapter 17 The United Stares versus the World 141
VI Body Politics: The Missing Link
Chapter 18 Dollars and Death: The Question of Physician-Assisted Suicide 145
Chapter 19 Eugenics and the "Sole Possible Economic Order" 152
Acknowledgments 170
Appendix: Current Disability Statistics 172
Endnotes 179
Index 203
