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Reich, Adam D.

 
9780801450662: With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
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ISBN 10 : 0801450667 ISBN 13 : 9780801450662
Editeur : ILR Press, 2012

Synopsis

When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California. Based on his own work as a volunteer organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Reich explores how both union leaders and hospital leaders sought to show they were upholding the Catholic "mission" of the hospital against a market represented by the other. Ultimately, workers and union leaders were able to reinterpret Catholic values in ways that supported their efforts to organize.

More generally, Reich argues that unions must weave together economic and cultural power in order to ensure their continued relevancy in the postindustrial world. In addition to advocating for workers' economic interests, unions must engage with workers' emotional investments in their work, must contend with the kind of moral authority that Santa Rosa Hospital leaders exerted to dissuade workers from organizing, and must connect labor's project to broader conceptions of the public good.

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À propos de l'auteur

Adam D. Reich is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison.

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Éditeur
ILR Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801450667
ISBN 13 
9780801450662
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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