This article outlines the triumphs and tragedy of Richard Oastler, a citizen advocate of the 19th century who earned the title “Factory King.” His story has much in common with those of several well known professional special educators who in the last decade took notebooks and cameras into state-controlled institutions for the retarded in order to loosen the medical administrative model's iron grip on residential services for societally devalued children and adults.
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