There may be a notion that hiring blind workers — or any disabled worker, for that matter — means spending more time, money and resources on training and equipment.
Most of the blind workers help manufacture camouflage T-shirts and duffel bags used by the United States military and State Correction Department.
Now, Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, a nonprofit organization, believes that job-training programs and increasing understanding of the blind are more effective tools in integrating blind workers into these jobs.
The National Industries for the Blind was established in 1938 as a result of a law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that required federal agencies to buy supplies made by blind workers.
Under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, federal agencies are required to purchase certain supplies from non-profit groups that hire blind workers or those with other disabilities.
Obviously, the nature of the intervention used in this study made it impossible to blind workers and ergonomists.
Behind the leaders, some of the main personae of the march had begun to emerge, among them Joe Young, a blind greenhouse worker from Atlanta, Georgia, and Jim Letherer, a one-legged settlement-house worker from Saginaw, Michigan.
He was employed as an elevator operator and a guide for a blind social worker for a while.
In 2000 von Trier released Dancer in the Dark, a melodrama that features Icelandic pop singer Björk as a nearly blind factory worker who finds relief from her constant travails in fantasy-fueled musical numbers.
And the flamboyant soap opera between Dolarhyde and a blind co-worker, played by Emily Watson, is jaw-dropping.
