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Blind Workers against Charity M. Reiss

Blind Workers against Charity By M. Reiss

Blind Workers against Charity by M. Reiss

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Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them.

Blind Workers against Charity Summary

Blind Workers against Charity: The National League of the Blind of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893-1970 by M. Reiss

Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them.

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The book highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the League's approach, documenting its successes and the compromises it had to make along the way. ... by shifting the lens from charity to activism it has the potential to build a bridge between disability and labour history that may suggest new approaches to those working in these areas ... . (Shurlee Swain, Labour History, Issue 110, May, 2016)

About M. Reiss

Matthias Reiss is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on the experience of marginalised groups in history, such as the unemployed, prisoners of war and African Americans. His current research focuses on street protest and social movements from the nineteenth century to the present.

Table of Contents

1. New Union or Poor People's Movement? Building the National League of the Blind 2. 'Justice not Charity': Framing the Message 3. Mutually Exclusive Principles? Trade Unionism and Charity 4. The Limits of Radicalism: Politics and Protest in the 1920s and 30s 5. Success at Last? The League and the Consolidation of the Welfare State 6. A Changing Relationship: The League and Charity in the Post-War Era

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NLS9781349473304
9781349473304
1349473308
Blind Workers against Charity: The National League of the Blind of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893-1970 by M. Reiss
M. Reiss
Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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Palgrave Macmillan
2015-01-01
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