New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace

The editors and contributors highlight the inevitable trade-offs that are involved in disability in the workplace, and make policy recommendations that are generally reasonable and backed by careful analysis and often new research findings.- Morley Gunderson, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto (Industrial and Labor Relations Review) Why is it so easy to recommend this book to JVIB readers —more precisely, to readers keenly interested in designing and applying disability policy to the complex area loosely summarized as 'the workplace'? Two virtues stand out: analytic sophistication and a reasonably balanced perspective on hotly debated issues.- Corinne Kirchner (Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness)

• Dispelling the myths about work disability; the prevention of disability from work-related sources - the roles of risk management, government intervention and insurance; the prevention of behavioural disabilities from non-work sources - employee assistance programmes and related strategies; the role of unions and collective bargaining in preventing work-related disability; reducing the consequences of disability - policies to reduce discrimination against disabled workers; facilitating employment through vocational rehabilitation; compensation for disabled workers - workers' compensation; social security disability insurance - a policy review; disputes and dispute resolutions; convergence - a comparison of European and US disability policy.