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Never good enough : health care workers and the false promise of job training
- Title
- Never good enough : health care workers and the false promise of job training / Ariel Ducey.
- Author
- Ducey, Ariel, 1972-
- Publication
- Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xi, 300 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- The culture and politics of health care work
- Uniform Title
- Culture and politics of health care work.
- Subjects
- Hospitals
- Hospitals > Employees > Labor unions > New York (State) > New York
- New York City
- Health facilities > Employees > Training of > New York (State) > New York
- Health Facilities
- Labor Unions
- Hospitals > Employees > Training of > New York (State) > New York
- Health facilities > Employees > Labor unions > New York (State) > New York
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Health Care and Getting By in America -- 1. The Pull and Perils of Health Care Work -- 2. Restructuring the New York Way -- 3. The Promise of Training -- 4. Too Skilled to Care: Multiskilling -- 5. "It All Comes Down to You": Self-Help and Soft Skills -- 6. Training without End: Upgrading -- 7. From Skills to Meaning -- 8. A Common Cause -- 9. Education as a Benefit -- Conclusion. A Dose of Idealism -- App. A. Note on Methods.
- ISBN
- 9780801444593 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801444594 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801475047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 080147504X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008023736
- OCLC
- ocn228371820
- 228371820
- SCSB-5449932
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries