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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, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

Greenberg, Brian.

Description

xix, 366 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

The working class in American history

Uniform Title

Working class in American history.

Subject

• Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center > History
• Service Employees International Union. Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.)
• Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center
• Hospitals > History. > United States
• Collective labor agreements > History. > United States
• Hospitals > history
• Labor Unions > history
• Collective Bargaining > history
• History, 20th Century
• History, 21st Century
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-347) and index.

Contents

1. Before the Union: The Hospital Worker as Involuntary Philanthropist -- 2. Awakening at Montefiore: The Hospital That Refused to Fight -- 3. The Brewing Storm: Organizing from the Ground Up -- 4. The Battle of '59: Anatomy of a Hospital Strike -- 5. Staying Alive: The Search for Legal Recognition -- 6. Coming of Age: Building an Effective Union in the 1960s -- 7. Stayed on Freedom: A Labor Crusade behind the Magnolia Curtain -- 8. High Expectations and Harsh Realities: Confronting a Changing Health Care System in the 1970s -- 9. 1199 Exceptionalism: Taking Stock of the First Generation -- 10. Union Power, Soul Power: When the Solution Becomes the Problem -- 11. Picking Up the Pieces: 1199's Recipe for Revival in the Dennis Rivera Era -- 12. 1199 Exceptionalism Revisited: The Politics of Partnership -- Epilogue: SEIU Healthcare - Rx for Growth or a Family Feud?

ISBN

• 9780252076053 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0252076052 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008032864

OCLC

• ocn237194837
• 237194837
• SCSB-8859836

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries