Book Review of "Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing our Future" by Jane Campbell & Mike Oliver
Book Review of "Disability Politics: Understanding our Past, Changing our Future" by Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver What an incredible book! Told from different people’s perspectives, who took part in creating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. This tells the story of how it came to be. Beginning in the 1960s, where staff snobbery towards kids of working class backgrounds in schools similar to boarding schools. How, if you became disabled in adulthood, your choices were to manage alone or live in a residential home/hospital ward. There were no carers, PAs or support workers to assist you with an independent life. One man spoke of inaccessible buildings and how employment was (and still is) impossible, unless you work for less or free. The man spoke of how he telephoned the benefits office from the village phone box every week because he couldn't get in to the building. Only to be told there was nothing available. The book talked about life before the blue badge,