Upheaval in the quiet zone : 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism / Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg.

Author
Fink, Leon, 1948- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed.
Published/​Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009.
Description
xix, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    "This expanded second edition of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone updates the dramatic story of an insurgent labor union that by the end of the 1980s had established itself as a vital force in the modern labor movement. But even bigger changes were on the way. Over-coming internal divisions that originated in its 1930s-inflected and civil rights-era militancy, 1199SEIU adopted a new strategy of labor-management cooperation to emerge as a key player in state and city politics. When SEIU president Andrew Stern laid plans in 2006 for a new national health care workers union that would simultaneously reach out to the unorganized and campaign for universal, national health insurance, he turned to 1199 president Dennis Rivera - and the 1199 political model - to lead the effort. With new material that updates the union's history since the 1990s, this book conveys the promise and problems of movement-building in the twenty-first century health care industry."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-347) and index.
    Contents
    • Before the union : the hospital worker as involuntary philanthropist
    • Awakening at Montefiore : the hospital that refused to fight
    • The brewing storm : organizing from the ground up
    • The battle of '59 : anatomy of a hospital strike
    • Staying alive : the search for legal recognition
    • Coming of age : building an effective union in the 1960s
    • Stayed on freedom : a labor crusade behind the Magnolia Curtain
    • High expectations and harsh realities : confronting a changing health care system in the 1970s
    • 1199 exceptionalism : taking stock of the first generation
    • Union power, soul power : when the solution becomes the problem
    • Picking up the pieces : 1199's recipe for revival in the Dennis Rivera era
    • 1199 exceptionalism revisited : the politics of partnership
    • Epilogue: SEIU health care : Rx for growth or a family feud?
    ISBN
    • 9780252076053 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0252076052 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2008032864
    OCLC
    237194837
    Other standard number
    • 40016457726
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