When Doctors Join Unions

by Budrys, Grace

• ISBN13: 9780801432774
• ISBN10: 0801432774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 Introduction	1	(7)
2 The Eruption of the Physicians' Union Movement	8	(10)
3 Physician's Strikes in the United States and Elsewhere	18	(14)
4 Professionalism: Construction of the Concept	32	(7)
5 The End of the Golden Age	39	(9)
6 The Union's Formative Years	48	(11)
7 The Changing Environment in the 1980s	59	(5)
8 The Deprofessionalization of Medicine?	64	(9)
9 The Mature Organization	73	(14)
10 Why a Union and Not a Professional Association?	87	(10)
11 From Cottage Industry to the Modern Era: The Industrialization Model	97	(9)
12 Postindustrial Work: A New Class of Workers	106	(7)
13 Is It Legal for Doctors to Form Unions?	113	(14)
14 What Does the UAPD Do for Its Members?	127	(11)
15 A Physician's Union: Harbinger or Anomaly?	138	(7)
16 Other Unions and Their Future	145	(12)
Bibliography	157	(16)
Index	173