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Excerpt from: The Blind In The Community Work in Competition with the Sighted in factories becomes more and more difficult to secure. That blind workers often do well has been asserted and proved so many times by the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind that it is now a truism. But the application of the Workmen's Compensation Law deters employers, and work for the blind in factories is only likely to be a success when the law of supply and demand forces employers to accept handicapped workmen when the unhandicapped are not to be had.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Blind In The Community | |
| From: | Reports Of The Ten-Year Survey Committee On The Work Of The Massachusetts Commission For The Blind, 1906-1916 | |
| Creator: | Edward M. Van Cleve (author) | |
| Date: | 1916 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind, Boston | |
| Source: | Mount Holyoke College Library | |
| Control no.: | IZB2, Cutter Collection | |
| Location: | pp.24-27 | |
| Keywords: | Blind; Boston, MA; Economics; Education; Employment; Government; Government Agencies; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Commission For The Blind; Policy; Sensory Disability; Sheltered Workshop; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Work; Workers Compensation | |
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