Disability politics in a global economy : essays in honour of Marta Russell / edited by Ravi Malhotra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Thoughts on responding to the left critique of disability rights law / Samuel R. Bagenstos -- Preface / Ravi Malhotra -- The legal politics of Marta Russell : a Castoriadan reading / Ravi Malhotra -- Social insurance for disability : contemporary challenges and insights from disability civil rights / Mark C. Weber -- Justice making : scrutinizing Canada's jury representativeness guarantees while ameliorating Stewart and Russell's conceptions of 'social wreckage' for Canadians with disabilities / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand -- The duty to accomodate drug and alcohol addiction in the workplace / Matthew Smith -- Disablement, prison and historical segregation : 15 years later / Liat Ben-Moshe and Jean Stewart -- Beyond ramps/against work : Marta Russell's legacy and politics of intersecionality / Nirmala Erevelles -- Ramping it up : calling attention to dis/ability at the end of education's social contract / David J. Connor and April B. Coughlin -- Economy, exploitation, and intellectual disability / Jihan Abbas -- Autonomism and the disabled and able working classes : a class composition approach to histories of resistance and destructuration / Zach Richter -- Disability community, policy, care and empowerment : "growing up" at MDA camp and the shaky social contract / Suzanne Stolz -- Deafness as linguistic and economic subversion in Benjamin Sáenz's Carry me like water / Emily Perkins -- The left hand of Stalin : eugenics in the Soviet Union -- Appendix: What disability civil rights cannot do : employment and political economy / Marta Russell.

"While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilities through the lens of political economy. This was the great contribution of Marta Russell (1951-2013), an activist and prominent scholar in the United States and best known for her analyses of the issues faced by people with disabilities. This book examines the legacy of Marta Russell, bringing together...scholars and activists such as Anne Finger, Nirmala Erevelles and Mark Weber, to explicate current issues relevant to the empowerment of people with disabilities. Drawing from various fields including law, political economy, education and history, the book takes an...interdisciplinary approach, offering a body of work that develops an...understanding of the marginalization of people with disabilities."-- Provided by publisher.