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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.
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9
Over
the
course
of
their
careers,
black
health
care
workers
make
many
observations,
decisions,
and
choices
that
have
both
short-
and
long-term
implications
for
their
work.
They
choose
to
spe-
cialize
in
certain
areas
of
health
care
and
decide
whether
to
go
into
private
practice.
They
take
note
of
the
ways
that
race
has
an
impact
on
their
work,
their
opportunities
for
advancement,
and
the
ways
they
are
treated
by
colleagues
and
patients.
They
react
to
the
ways
health
care
has
increasingly
become
more
of
a
busi-
ness
than
a
service,
and
assess
what
that
means
for
their
own
occupational
options.
But
none
of
these
occur
in
a
vacuum.
In
this
chapter,
I
examine
broad
structural
changes
of
the
last
half
century
and
show
how
they
set
the
stage
for
the
racial
encoun-
ters
black
workers
like
Randy,
Theresa,
and
Amber
experience
in
professional
settings.
CH
A
P
T
ER
ONE
Health
Care,
Work,
and
Racial
Outsourcing
Table of contents
- Cover
- Flatlining
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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