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A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers - The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199 (Hardcover)
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A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers - The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199 (Hardcover)
Series: West Virginia & Appalachia
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History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
The union of hospital workers usually referred to as the 1199 sits
at the intersection of three of the most important topics in US
history: organized labor, health care, and civil rights. John
Hennen's book explores the union's history in Appalachia, a region
that is generally associated with extractive industries but has
seen health care grow as a share of the overall economy. With a
multiracial, largely female, and notably militant membership, 1199
was at labor's vanguard in the 1970s, and Hennen traces its efforts
in hospitals, nursing homes, and healthcare centers in West
Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and Appalachian Ohio. He places these
stories of mainly low-wage women workers within the framework of
shake-ups in the late industrial and early postindustrial United
States, relying in part on the words of Local 1199 workers and
organizers themselves. Both a sophisticated account of an
overlooked aspect of Appalachia's labor history and a key piece of
context for Americans' current concern with the status of
"essential workers," Hennen's book is a timely contribution to the
fields of history and Appalachian studies and to the study of
social movements.
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