Upheaval in the Quiet Zone : 1199/SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism Paperback / softback
by Leon Fink, Brian Greenberg
Part of the Working Class in American History series
Paperback / softback
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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. Overcoming 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 33 black & white photographs, 2 line drawings, 1 table
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:21/01/2009
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- ISBN:9780252076053
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 33 black & white photographs, 2 line drawings, 1 table
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:21/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252076053
