Flatlining (eBook)

Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

Adia Harvey Wingfield (Autor)

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2019
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97178-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: black doctors • black employees • black health care professionals • black nurses • black physician assistants • black technicians • Class • clinics • communities of color • equity work • Gender • Hospitals • Institutions • issues of inequality • Labor • New Economy • organizational resources • profit driven • Race • racial outsourcing • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97178-7 / 0520971787
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97178-3 / 9780520971783