Organization of Health Workers and Labor Conflict

Samuel Wolfe

Preface

PART 1: Worker Conflict in the Health Field
Worker Conflicts in the Health Field: An Overview Samuel Wolfe
Health Worker Strikes: Social and Economic Bases of Conflict Robin F. Badgley
Organization and Unionization of Health Workers in the United States: The Trade Union Perspective Leon J. Davis and Moe Foner
Unionization, Strikes, Threatened Strikes, and Hospitals: The View from Hospital Management Robert K. Match, Arnold H. Goldstein, and Harold L. Light
The Purposes of Unionization in the Medical Profession: The Unionized Profession's Perspective in the United States Sanford A. Marcus
Hospital Workers: Class Conflicts in the Making Barbara Ehrenreichand John H. Ehrenreich
An International Perspective on Strikes and Strike Threats by Physicians: The Case of Chile Roberto Belmar and Victor W. Sidel
Unions and Strikes in the National Health Service in Britain David Widgery

PART 2: Allied Workers, Nurses, Women
The Division of Laborers: Allied Health Professions Carol A. Brown
The Development of the Nursing Labor Force in the United States: A Basic Analysis Kathleen Cannings and William Lazonick
Women Workers in the Health Service Industry Carol A. Brown
Barriers to the Nurse Practitioner Movement: Problems of Women in a Woman's Field Bonnie Bullough
Women's Emancipation and Socialism: The Case of the People's Republic of Poland Magdalena Sokolowska

Contributors