Cover -- Career Success of Disabled High-Flyers -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Career Success of Disabled High-Flyers -- Introduction -- Aims of this book -- The disabled high-flyers -- Influence of the disabled researcher -- The story of the author and the research -- Collecting the data -- Chapter 2 The Role of Disabled People in the Workplace -- What is disability? -- Disabled people at work -- Prospects for disabled people in the twenty-first century -- Chapter 3 Meanings of Success for High-Flyers -- Traditional conceptualisations of career success -- Importance of subjective conceptions of career success -- Disabled high-flyers' conceptions of success -- Conclusions -- 4 Childhood -- Introduction -- Social class, parental occupation and influence -- Parental expectations and the development of the disabled child -- Parental influence on the childhood socialisations of disabled high-flyers -- Childhood experiences -- Childhood experiences of disabled high-flyers -- Gender socialisation -- Gender socialisation of disabled high-flyers -- Conclusion -- 5 Education -- Introduction -- Education and economic participation -- Educational experiences of the disabled high-flyers -- Segregated education -- Inclusive education -- Disabled high-flyers' experiences of segregated and mainstream education -- Conclusion -- 6 Individual Personality and Motivation: Their Roles in Career Success -- Introduction -- Need for achievement -- Disabled high-flyers' patterns of motivation -- Work centrality -- Work centrality of disabled high-flyers -- Locus of control -- The locus of control of disabled high-flyers -- Conclusion -- 7 Career Choice and Experiences -- Introduction -- Career choice and development -- Career choice and progression among disabled high-f -- yers -- Conclusion -- 8 A Portrait of the Disabled High-Flyer -- Success.

Childhood -- Education -- Personality, motivation and work centrality -- Career choice and experiences -- Practical implications and recommendations -- References -- About the Author -- Subject index -- Author Index.