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The effects of the mid-twentieth century collapse of institutional peonage on future employment options available to individuals with disabilities have been long felt. The wholesale relegating of individuals with intellectual disabilities and, to a large extent, individuals with mental illness, into sheltered workshops as the only option for employment effectively sentenced those individuals to a lifetime of poverty and dependency on government benefit programs.
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© 2016 Ruthie-Marie Beckwith
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Beckwith, RM. (2016). Perpetuation of Peonage and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century. In: Disability Servitude. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540317_8
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