With God on Our Side

Author: Adam D. Reich
Edition: BB
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801450667
Category: Medical

With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

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. Download With God on Our Side medical books for free.
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, wo Get With God on Our Side our bestseller medical books.

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