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With God on Our Side : The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode ;ISBN: 080146465X ;ISBN: 9780801464652 ;ISBN: 9780801450662 ;ISBN: 0801450667 ;EISBN: 9780801464188 ;EISBN: 0801464188 ;EISBN: 080146465X ;EISBN: 9780801464652 ;DOI: 10.7591/9780801464188 ;OCLC: 794489172

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  • Title:
    With God on Our Side : The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
  • Author: Reich, Adam D
  • Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; California ; Catholic Church ; Catholic hospitals ; Economic Policy ; Economics ; Employees ; Labor ; Labor & Industrial Relations ; Labor movement ; Labor unions ; Organizing ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Religious aspects ; Santa Rosa ; Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital ; Theory
  • Description: When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers’ rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California. Based on his own work as a volunteer organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Reich explores how both union leaders and hospital leaders sought to show they were upholding the Catholic "mission" of the hospital against a market represented by the other. Ultimately, workers and union leaders were able to reinterpret Catholic values in ways that supported their efforts to organize.More generally, Reich argues that unions must weave together economic and cultural power in order to ensure their continued relevancy in the postindustrial world. In addition to advocating for workers’ economic interests, unions must engage with workers’ emotional investments in their work, must contend with the kind of moral authority that Santa Rosa Hospital leaders exerted to dissuade workers from organizing, and must connect labor’s project to broader conceptions of the public good.
  • Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell University Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 192
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 080146465X
    ISBN: 9780801464652
    ISBN: 9780801450662
    ISBN: 0801450667
    EISBN: 9780801464188
    EISBN: 0801464188
    EISBN: 080146465X
    EISBN: 9780801464652
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801464188
    OCLC: 794489172
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
    DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
    JSTOR eBooks: Open Access
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