This little film had a great impact on hiring disabled workers in wartime industry, opening the door for the full employment of disabled people in the mainstream workplace, which was almost totally unheard of before the war. This continued after the war and led to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
My parents, both blind, were examples of the result, as both my father and mother were hired to work in wartime industry in that very year, 1943. They worked for the Link Radio Corporation in New York City. They were two of a group of other blind workers hired by the company's founder and owner, Fred M. Link. My father, who was just as amazingly gifted with his hands as Ben Helwig was in the film, was employed in the mainstream until his retirement 42 years later.
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This little film had a great impact on hiring disabled workers in wartime industry, opening the door for the full employment of disabled people in the mainstream workplace, which was almost totally unheard of before the war. This continued after the war and led to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
My parents, both blind, were examples of the result, as both my father and mother were hired to work in wartime industry in that very year, 1943. They worked for the Link Radio Corporation in New York City. They were two of a group of other blind workers hired by the company's founder and owner, Fred M. Link. My father, who was just as amazingly gifted with his hands as Ben Helwig was in the film, was employed in the mainstream until his retirement 42 years later.