Routledge Visual Impairment and Work - Visually Impaired Experiences

This comprehensive book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day, offering a rare first-person perspective often absent from existing literature. Drawing on fifty in-depth face-to-face interviews, the work documents employment experiences across diverse professions including telephony, physiotherapy, and piano tuning, giving voice to visually impaired workers themselves. Published by Routledge as part of the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series, this sociological study combines historical analysis with contemporary narratives to examine how visual impairment intersects with workplace participation, professional achievement, and social integration over more than two centuries of employment history.