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Upheaval in the quiet zone : 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism
- Title
- Upheaval in the quiet zone : 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism / Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg.
- Author
- Fink, Leon, 1948-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Greenberg, Brian.
- Description
- xix, 366 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Working class in American history
- Subjects
- Hospitals > history > United States
- History, 21st Century > United States
- Labor Unions > history > United States
- Collective labor agreements > Hospitals > United States > History
- Service Employees International Union > Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.)
- Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center History
- Hospitals > Employees > Labor unions > United States > History
- History, 20th Century > United States
- Collective Bargaining > history > United States
- Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center
- Bibliography (note)
- 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?
- Call Number
- JBE 09-550
- ISBN
- 9780252076053 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0252076052 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008032864
- OCLC
- 237194837
- Author
- Fink, Leon, 1948-
- Title
- Upheaval in the quiet zone : 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism / Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Series
- Working class in American history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-347) and index.
- Added Author
- Greenberg, Brian.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 09-550