Trade Union Strategies against Healthcare Marketization

ISBN-13: 9781032043302 / Miękka / 2023 / 198 str.

Germany) Auffenberg Jennie (Bremen Chamber of Labour

Opis

Marketization in the healthcare sector affects the quality and delivery of care, as well as healthcare workers’ working conditions. Based on a comparison of England and Germany, along with an in-depth case study looking at New York, this volume examines how trade unions respond to marketization processes and determinants of successful strategies.

Spis treści

1 Marketization Trends and Trade Unions in the Health Sectors 2 Marketization, Opportunity Structures and Local-Level Determinants of Trade Union Action 3 Accompanying Corporatization Processes: Partnership Approaches in Low Salience Marketization 4 Negotiating over Support Service Outsourcing Effects: Combining Partnership and Organizing Strategies 5 Resisting Medical Service Privatization: Exploiting Marketization Specificities and High Political Salience 6 Reversing Marketization Effects: Mobilizing Workers and the Public for Staffing Levels 7 Trade Unionism in Times of Marketization

O autorze

Jennie Auffenberg is a Policy Advisor at the Bremen Chamber of Labour, Germany.