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A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers
The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199
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eBook - ePub
A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers
The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199
About this book
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.
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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Publisher
West Virginia University PressYear
2021Print ISBN
9781952271243, 9781952271236eBook ISBN
9781952271250Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Radical Elders, or a Multigenerational Red Thread
- 2. Busting Loose at Marshall
- 3. New Boundaries for Local 1199
- 4. ā1199 Comes to Appalachiaā
- 5. Law, Busting Unions, Building Unions
- 6. A Kentucky Saga and a Strike for Survival
- 7. Big Win and Tough Losses, 1976ā1980
- 8. Survival in the Time of Reagan
- 9. āOrganize or Dieā: An Ohio Odyssey and a Big Fight in Fairmont
- 10. āA Howling Voice in the Wildernessā: Separation and Merger
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index