Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Five Ways to Employment for the Blind: A Report of a Conference Held at Broadway, Worcestershire, October, 1944, on the Beveridge and Tomlinson Reports; The White Papers on National Insurance and on Employment Policy; And the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act
The total number of blind persons of working age is only a small fraction of the total employed working population and indeed of the total number of disabled people who come within the scope of the Act. Since the Blind Persons Act of 1920 the blind have been a privileged people, enjoying special advantages derived from a separate system of welfare which, despite certain defects, was superior to the arrangements made for any other disabled persons. None the less, the war has proved that a great many blind people who were capable of employment were not only not employed. But were classified as unemployable, and it has also to be admitted that much of the employment given to the blind in special Workshops and Home Workers Schemes has been uneconomic. The arrangements now contemplated for the employment of the Disabled promise to be both more inclusive and more economic. Blind Welfare has to beware of clinging to the past at the expense of missing present opportunity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
