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Upheaval in the quiet zone : 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism / Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg.
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Fink, Leon, 1948-
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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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RA971.35 .F56 2009
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Hospitals
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Employees
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Labor unions
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United States
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History
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Collective labor agreements
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Hospitals
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United States
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History
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Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center
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History
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Service Employees International Union Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.)
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Greenberg, Brian
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Series
Working class in American history
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The working class in American history
Summary note
"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?
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ISBN
9780252076053 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0252076052 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2008032864
OCLC
237194837
Other standard number
40016457726
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