With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights...
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Author: Adam D. Reich
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With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy by Reich, Adam D.

With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

€65,26

With God on Our Side: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

€65,26
Author: Adam D. Reich
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Adam D. Reich
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 04/10/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780801450662
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2012

About the Author

Adam D. Reich is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison.


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