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An Ethnographic Case Study Of A Deaf Workforce Collective, Peter Shane Butler
An Ethnographic Case Study Of A Deaf Workforce Collective, Peter Shane Butler
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This ethnographic study seeks to increase our understanding of the individual and shared experiences of five members of a Deaf United States Postal Service (USPS) collective employment cohort in regards to their early learning experiences, how these experiences led to collective employment, and how the collective employment opportunity led them to establish a new Strong Deaf Community in Houston. The data collected through semi structured interviews will be used to increase our understanding about how Strong Deaf Communities form, and what purpose they serve for grassroots members.
This study also seeks to shed light on why it is critical for …