Table of Contents

Preface   vii
Introduction   1

I. Background to Unionization   13
1. Duke Medical Center and Its Workers   15
2. From Clients to Workers: The Beginnings of Activism   37

II. Organizing the Hospital   67
3. Work and Race, Work Culture, and Collective Action   69
4. The First Medical Center Drive   99
5. How Women Organized   117
6. The Second Drive, 1977-79   143

III. Rollbacks in the Eighties   161
7. Service Workers   165
8. Technologists, Nurses, and Clericals   189

Retrospect and Conclusion   209
References   217
Index   231
 

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Winner of the Conrad Arensberg Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Work, 1993