LEADER 02863oam 2200517I 450 001 9910150354403321 005 20230810001247.0 010 $a1-317-01536-3 010 $a0-367-34909-4 010 $a1-315-55268-X 010 $a1-4724-7424-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315552682 035 $a(CKB)3710000000932527 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4741353 035 $a970383937 035 $a(OCoLC)962752254 035 $a(OCoLC-P)962752254 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315552682 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000932527 100 $a20161116d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aOrganizing the blind $ethe case of ONCE in Spain /$fRoberto Garvi?a 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (133 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aInterdisciplinary Disability Studies 311 $a1-4724-7425-2 311 $a1-317-01537-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Origins -- 2. The challenge of the original goals -- 3. A new organizational culture -- 4. The blind and people with other disabilities -- 5. Gigantism and containment -- 6. The future of ONCE. 330 $aThis book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to other affluent countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the Spanish blind enjoy full employment. Furthermore, the average income of the Spanish blind is higher than that of the sighted. Why is this so? Why the blind, and not the deaf mute, or any other group of disabled people? This book shows that ONCE answers these questions. The book explainsONCE'S origins, the shifting strategies that the organization has pursued to adapt to an ever-changing environment, its original goals and the way they have mutated and been interpreted, its conflicting relationship with an authoritarian regime, its struggle to find its place in a democratic regime, and its relations with other groups of disabled people. A historical narrative, the book lies at the intersection between disability and organization studies, history and sociology. It will be of interest to all scholars of disability studies, the sociology of work, the history of medicine and contemporary Spanish history. 410 0$aInterdisciplinary disability studies. 606 $aPeople with visual disabilities$zSpain 607 $aSpain 615 0$aPeople with visual disabilities 676 $a362.41 700 $aGarvi?a Soto$b Roberto$0959002 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150354403321 996 $aOrganizing the blind$92172776 997 $aUNINA