| Description |
1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
West Virginia and Appalachia
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West Virginia and Appalachia.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Radical elders, or a multigenerational red thread -- Busting loose at Marshall -- New boundaries for Local 1199 -- "1199 comes to Appalachia" -- Law, busting unions, building unions -- A Kentucky saga and a strike for survival -- Big win and tough losses, 1976-1980 -- Survival in the time of Reagan -- "Organize or die": an Ohio odyssey and a big fight in Fairmont -- "A howling voice in the wilderness": separation and merger |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Service Employees International Union. Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Service Employees International Union. Local 1199 (New York, N.Y.) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions. |
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Appalachian Region. |
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Medical personnel -- Labor unions -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Medical personnel. |
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Labor unions. |
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Allied health personnel -- Labor unions -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Allied health personnel. |
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Labor movement -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Labor movement. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hennen, John, 1951- Union for Appalachian healthcare workers. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021 9781952271236 (DLC) 2021015318 (OCoLC)1245956555 |
| ISBN |
9781952271250 (electronic book) |
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1952271258 (electronic book) |
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9781952271236 (cloth) |
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1952271231 (cloth) |
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9781952271243 (paperback) |
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195227124X (paperback) |
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