Disability and Equity at Work

Jody Heymann is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Heymann was the Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.Michael Ashley Stein is co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, as well as Cabell Professor at William & Mary Law School. He has taught at Harvard, New York University, and Stanford law schools.Gonzalo Moreno coordinates a large-scale international research and training project that seeks to understand how social policy affects infant, child and maternal health outcomes primarily in low- and middle-income countries.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Chapter 1 ; Disability, Employment and Inclusion Worldwide ; Jody Heymann, Michael A. Stein, and Gonzalo Moreno ; Section 1 - THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT ; Chapter 2 ; Restructuring Disability Policy and Improving Employment Outcomes in the United States ; David C. Stapleton and David R. Mann ; Chapter 3 ; Disability and Employment in the European Union: Collective Strategies and Tools ; Anna Lawson ; Chapter 4 ; Complementary Approaches: Japanese Disability and Employment Law ; Ryoko Sakuraba ; Chapter 5 ; Employment Challenges and Successes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries ; Sophie Mitra ; Chapter 6 ; Government Policy and Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Peru ; Stanislao Maldonado ; Section 2 - EMPLOYERS AND MULTI-SECTORAL ACTORS ; Chapter 7 ; Finding and Maintaining Employment: Lessons from Workplace Non-Discrimination Measures ; Susanne M. Bruyere with Sara A. Van Looy ; Chapter 8 ; Improving Disability Confidence from Within the Private Sector: the Employers' Forum on Disability ; Megan Galeucia ; Chapter 9 ; Employability and Inclusion in a For-Profit Company: Serasa Experian's Employability Program for Persons with Disabilities. ; Kali Stull ; Chapter 10 ; Employment Policy Approaches and Multi-Sectoral Implementation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries ; Daniel Mont ; Chapter 11 ; Microfinance and Disability: Recommendations for Policymakers and Practitioners ; Leif Atle Besland and Roy Mersland ; Chapter 12 ; Assistive Technology and Employment in Low-Resource Environments ; Joyojeet Pal ; Section 3 - A LIFE-COURSE APPROACH AND BEYOND ; Chapter 13 ; Transition from School to Work: New Directions for Policy and Practice ; Frank R. Rusch, John Dattilo, Robert Stodden, and Anthony J. Plotner ; Chapter 14 ; Career Advancement for Young Adults with Disabilities ; Lauren Lindstrom and Laurie Guttman Kahn ; Chapter 15 ; Preventing Job Abandonment and Facilitating Work Reintegration in High-Income Countries ; Rienk Prins

The three North American editors who are clearly very committed to disability rights and improving working conditions have superbly linked the contributions from 21 international expert authors....This edition successfully engages in a wide-ranging review of policies and supportive mechanisms for continued engagement of those with disabilities in the workforce.