Upheaval in the quiet zone
Subtitle: 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism
By: Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg.
Contributors: Greenberg, Brian.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780252076053
Subjects: Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center -- History; Service Employees International Union. -- Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.); Service Employees International Union. -- Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.); Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; Collective labor agreements -- Hospitals -- United States -- History; Hospitals -- history -- United States; Labor Unions -- history -- United States; Collective Bargaining -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States
Other titles: 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the union : the hospital worker as involuntary philanthropist; title: Awakening at Montefiore : the hospital that refused to fight; title: The brewing storm : organizing from the ground up; title: The battle of '59 : anatomy of a hospital strike; title: Staying alive : the search for legal recognition; title: Coming of age : building an effective union in the 1960s; title: Stayed on freedom : a labor crusade behind the Magnolia Curtain; title: High expectations and harsh realities : confronting a changing health care system in the 1970s; title: 1199 exceptionalism : taking stock of the first generation; title: Union power, soul power : when the solution becomes the problem; title: Picking up the pieces : 1199's recipe for revival in; title: The Dennis Rivera era; title: 1199 exceptionalism revisited : the politics of partnership; title: Epilogue : SEIU health care: RX for growth or a family feud?