Flatlining

Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

Adia Harvey Wingfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30033-0 (ISBN)

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What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in “racial outsourcing,” relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do “equity work”—extra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today’s workplaces and communities.

Adia Harvey Wingfield is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a regular contributor to Slate, Harvard Business Review, and the Atlantic. Her previous book is No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Health Care, Work, and Racial Outsourcing
2. “There Was That One Time . . .”
3. When “That One Time” Is All the Time
4. Sticky Floors and Social Tensions
5. It’s Not Grey’s Anatomy
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.06.2019
Zusatzinfo	0 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-30033-5 / 0520300335
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30033-0 / 9780520300330
Zustand	Neuware