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With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

Reich, Adam D.

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Medical ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0801450667
ISBN13: 9780801450662
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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