Peter Blanck & Helen A. Schartz
2003
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Although there is great diversity of definitions, causes, conditions, and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment and other aspects of daily life, there are fundamental themes that unite countries in their pursuit of policies to improve the social and economic status of persons with disabilities. The premise of this chapter is that comparative research is crucial to identifying individual, organizational, cultural, attitudinal and legal themes necessary for the effective development of disability employment policies.
In the later part of the twentieth century, international initiatives such as the 1993 United Nations (UN) Resolution 48/96 established standards for the equalization of employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.1 Prior to the 1993 Resolution, the 1971 and 1975 UN Resolutions regarding the rights of persons with mental retardation helped to frame then emerging issues facing persons with disabilities in all parts of the world and at different economic and social levels in society.
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Blanck, P.D. & Schartz, H.A. (2003). Comparative Study of the Emerging Workforce of Persons with Disabilities 347-85, in Different But Equal: The Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities, S. Herr, H Koh, & L. Gostin (eds.), Oxford University Press
Keywords: disability discrimination, employment, employment policy, intellectual disability