Able!: How One Company's Extraordinary Workforce Changed the Way We Look at Disability Today

by Nancy Henderson, David Morris (Introduction), Randy Lewis (Foreword)

In a time when other companies are outsourcing abroad, this book tells the remarkable tale of Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer Habitat International, a company that has managed to achieve productivity many times greater than its competitors with an American workforce most people would never think to consider: the disabled. This inspiring true story of David Morris and his employees is a revealing account of extraordinary success achieved through taking risks to unlock every person's potential. Companies and individuals looking to revitalize their workforce can better understand through this example the importance of work, not just to the disabled community, but to each and every person.

Genres: Nonfiction

263 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2005

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 1 out of 5]

Saw this is in a library box, thought "this is going to be horrendously offensive inspiration porn" but decided to give it a chance. I never got past the first page after it called Deaf and Hard of Hearing people "hearing impaired." They evidently hired no sensitivity readers or this would have been caught. If the author couldn't even figure out that "hearing impaired" is considered a derogatory term then there will definitely be no understanding of the intricacies of ableism. Just skimming the book there's consistent use of derogatory language, person first language (which is not the preferred language by the disabled community, we find it rather offensive, really) I'm not going to waste my emotional energy on a hate read where I'll see myself and people like me demeaned so I'm just giving this a fat one star rating instead.

[Weavre]

ILL; my local library system doesn't have it