The politics and experience of disability: a view from the blind side

This paper combines literature from the field of management and organizational studies with literature from other social sciences to describe how people with disabilities experience organizational life. A brief history of the education and socialization of blind people in the United States places the discussion within the context of the author's own disability. The paper concludes with a call for research that highlights the experience of people with disabilities who are making the transition from organizational outsider to insider.