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5 - A Charge Almost If Not Quite as Sacred

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2022

Julie M. Powell
Affiliation:
University College Dublin
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Chapter 5 highlights the role of disabled veterans in establishing rehabilitation rights at both the national and international levels. It examines, particularly, the involvement of ex-servicemen in the work of the Disablement Branch of the International Labour Organization. Moreover, it answers the question posed by government, military and medical authorities, reformers, and the public-at-large about what was to become of the rehabilitation programmes and technological advances that the war had wrought. The Allied culture of rehabilitation provided the framework for disabled civilian workers and their advocates to lobby for an extension of rehabilitation rights to the industrially disabled, yet, in the end, the expansion of soldiers’ rehabilitation programmes to the civilian body remained largely elusive until the Second World War. Attempts to capitalise on the popular zeal for rehabilitation collapsed as gendered comparisons between soldiers and labourers fell short of their aims, patriotism and wartime collectivist sentiment lost their coercive force, and the political climate turned, bringing the reform era that had launched rehabilitation to a close.

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The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation
, pp. 183 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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