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A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers - The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,914
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A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers - The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199 (Hardcover): John Hennen

A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers - The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199 (Hardcover)

John Hennen

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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Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: West Virginia & Appalachia
Release date: November 2021
Authors: John Hennen
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-952271-23-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > Trade unions
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of other lands
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
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LSN: 1-952271-23-1
Barcode: 9781952271236

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