Comparative Historical Research on Labor of Persons with Disabilities

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320126
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Historical studies in general
• Research Institution: University of Fukui
• Principal Investigator: FUJIWARA Tetsuya 福井大学, 医学部, 教授 (30362338)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUZUKI Akihito 慶応大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80296730) ; YAMASHITA Mai 京都産業大学, 経営学部, 教授 (90387994) ; NAKANO Tomoyo 成城大学, 文芸学部, 准教授 (90454470) ; OTANI Makoto 同志社大学, 人文科学研究所, 嘱託研究員 (10536105) ; NAGAHIRO Toshitaka 和歌山大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (60432598)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KOBAYASHI Takehiro 同志社大学, 文学部, 教授 (60467397) ; HIROSE Kojiro 国立民族学博物館, 民族文化研究部, 准教授 (20342644) ; IMAJOH Toru 阪南大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (20453988)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 障害者 / 労働 / 比較史 / 障害学 / 雇用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research employed by comparative historical perspectives, we find that development of industrialization asked persons with disabilities to demonstrate labor capability, and that while vocational training policy urged capable persons with disabilities to participate in the labor market, their incapable counterparts were excluded from the labor market, which became bipolarized among the disability population. Furthermore, we also recognize that in the period between World War I and II, each country our research members analyzed showed a tendency of the bipolarization phenomenon (entry and exclusion to disabled persons’ labor market)

Free Research Field

日本近代史、アメリカ史