"Capacity for Labor," Work, and Disability in the Early Republic, 1791-1833.

The article discusses various aspects of employees' capacity for labor between 1791 and 1822 in the northeastern region of the United States, and it mentions the concept of disability as a social category and the formation of a labor force in America's Antebellum era. Able-bodied workers are addressed, as well as American manufacturing, work, and poor relief.