Library Collections: Document: Item Description

Excerpt from:
The Unemployed Blind (A Later View)
There are, it is estimated, a million labourers out of work in the United States. Their inaction is not due to physical defects or lack of ability or of intelligence, or to ill health or vice. It is due to the fact that our present system of production necessitates a large margin of idle men....
  Enlarge the image
Read
Full Text


Document Information

Title: The Unemployed Blind (A Later View)
From: Out Of The Dark
Creator: Helen Keller (author)
Date: 1920
Format: Article
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.241-246
Keywords: Advocacy; Blind; Charity; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Economics; Employment; Family; Helen Keller; Ideologies; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Manufacturing; Massachusetts; Poverty; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Socialism
Topics: Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Editorial from the Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, April, 1911.


Objects From This Artifact:
- A Letter To Mark Twain (doc)
- An Apology For Going To College (doc)
- An Appeal To Reason (doc)
- A New Chime For The Christmas Bells (doc)
- Christmas In The Dark (doc)
- How I Became A Socialist (doc)
- How To Become A Writer (doc)
- Letter To An English Woman-Suffragist (doc)
- Our Duties To The Blind (doc)
- Preface (doc)
- Preventable Blindness (doc)
- The Conservation Of Eyesight (doc)
- The Education Of The Deaf (doc)
- The Gift Of Speech (doc)
- The Hand Of The World (doc)
- The Heaviest Burden Of The Blind (doc)
- The Message Of Swedenborg (doc)
- The Modern Woman (doc)
- The Plain Truth (doc)
- The Training Of A Blind Child (doc)
- The Truth Again (doc)
- The Unemployed Blind (A Later View) (doc)
- The Worker's Right (doc)
- The Work Of De L’Epée (doc)
- To The New College Girl (doc)
- What The Blind Can Do (doc)
- What To Do For The Blind (doc)