Hundreds of millions of people with disabilities around the world are out of work or underemployed. Disability and Equity at Work is the first book to document what can be done to improve the employment situation of people with disabilities globally.

TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Chapter 1 ; Disability, Employment and Inclusion Worldwide ; Jody Heymann, Michael A. Stein, and Gonzalo Moreno ; Section 1 - THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT ; Chapter 2 ; Restructuring Disability Policy and Improving Employment Outcomes in the United States ; David C. Stapleton and David R. Mann ; Chapter 3 ; Disability and Employment in the European Union: Collective Strategies and Tools ; Anna Lawson ; Chapter 4 ; Complementary Approaches: Japanese Disability and Employment Law ; Ryoko Sakuraba ; Chapter 5 ; Employment Challenges and Successes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries ; Sophie Mitra ; Chapter 6 ; Government Policy and Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Peru ; Stanislao Maldonado ; Section 2 - EMPLOYERS AND MULTI-SECTORAL ACTORS ; Chapter 7 ; Finding and Maintaining Employment: Lessons from Workplace Non-Discrimination Measures ; Susanne M. Bruyere with Sara A. Van Looy ; Chapter 8 ; Improving Disability Confidence from Within the Private Sector: the Employers' Forum on Disability ; Megan Galeucia ; Chapter 9 ; Employability and Inclusion in a For-Profit Company: Serasa Experian's Employability Program for Persons with Disabilities. ; Kali Stull ; Chapter 10 ; Employment Policy Approaches and Multi-Sectoral Implementation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries ; Daniel Mont ; Chapter 11 ; Microfinance and Disability: Recommendations for Policymakers and Practitioners ; Leif Atle Besland and Roy Mersland ; Chapter 12 ; Assistive Technology and Employment in Low-Resource Environments ; Joyojeet Pal ; Section 3 - A LIFE-COURSE APPROACH AND BEYOND ; Chapter 13 ; Transition from School to Work: New Directions for Policy and Practice ; Frank R. Rusch, John Dattilo, Robert Stodden, and Anthony J. Plotner ; Chapter 14 ; Career Advancement for Young Adults with Disabilities ; Lauren Lindstrom and Laurie Guttman Kahn ; Chapter 15 ; Preventing Job Abandonment and Facilitating Work Reintegration in High-Income Countries ; Rienk Prins

Selling point: Provides a combination of evidence-based recommendations from global experts and in-depth case studies Selling point: Focuses on solutions that are economically feasible for workers, businesses, and countries Selling point: Discusses the roles of different actors: government, businesses, civil society, and combinations Selling point: Chapters cover different stages of a worker's life, from the transition to school to work to disabilities that affect workers later in their career Selling point: Provides examples of feasible and affordable strategies in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries

Jody Heymann is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Heymann was the Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University. Heymann's leadership in addressing working conditions and equity include founding and leading the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard University, establishing and leading the WORLD Policy Analysis Center which examines labor policy and disability policy as well as other social policies in all 193 UN countries, and directing training initiatives which brought students to over 25 countries to study effective approaches to improving working conditions and equity in a wide range of social spheres. She is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and held a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy. Michael Ashley Stein holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, as well as Cabell Professor at William & Mary Law School, he has taught at Harvard, New York University, and Stanford law schools. An internationally recognized expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, works with disabled persons organizations around the world, actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies, and advises a number of UN bodies. Stein has received numerous awards for his work, and was recently appointed by President Obama to the United States Holocaust Council. Gonzalo Moreno helped managed the Disability and Equity Initiative in 2011-2012 at the Institute for Health and Social Policy, which examined what policies and programs can lead to labor market improvements for persons with disabilities, with a specific focus on equitable, integrated and sustainable employment. Moreno now coordinates a large-scale international research and training project that seeks to understand how social policy affects infant, child and maternal health outcomes primarily in low- and middle-income countries.

Selling point: Provides a combination of evidence-based recommendations from global experts and in-depth case studies Selling point: Focuses on solutions that are economically feasible for workers, businesses, and countries Selling point: Discusses the roles of different actors: government, businesses, civil society, and combinations Selling point: Chapters cover different stages of a worker's life, from the transition to school to work to disabilities that affect workers later in their career Selling point: Provides examples of feasible and affordable strategies in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries