Abstract
In a recent law review article, Peter Blanck (2006) writes movingly about disabled individuals’ experiences with, and reactions to, workplace discrimination, “… they wanted real jobs. They did not want to live on welfare checks; they wanted paychecks. They fought to be participants in society and not view the world as outsiders from a nursing home bed.” (p. 694). Blanck’s stories are about disabled Americans who fought against discrimination. The individuals were discriminated against because of their disabilities: they were fired from their jobs; denied the necessary accommodations to perform their assigned tasks; and denied equal access to governmental services and public facilities.
We receive so many messages from the nondisabled world that we are not wanted, that we are considered less than human. For those with restricted mobility or sensory disabilities, the very physical environment tells us we don’t belong. It tells us that we aren’t wanted in the places that nondisabled people spend their lives—their homes, their schools and colleges, their workshops, their leisure venues…
(Morris, 1991, pp. 26–27)
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For an empirical examination of various dimensions of justice, including informational, interactional, formal, and interpersonal dimensions, see Colquitt (2001).
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Heuer, L. (2011). Disability and Procedural Fairness in the Workplace. In: Wiener, R., Willborn, S. (eds) Disability and Aging Discrimination. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6293-5_11
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