Flatlining
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Flatlining

Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

Adia Harvey Wingfield

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Flatlining

Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

Adia Harvey Wingfield

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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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780520971783
Edition
1
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Classi sociali e disparità economica
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.
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A
P
T
ER
ONE
Health 
Care, 
Work, 
and 
Racial 
Outsourcing

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