When Doctors Join Unions

by Budrys, Grace

• ISBN13: 9780801483547
• ISBN10: 0801483549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

Current and anticipated changes in this country's health care system are likely to add momentum to the physicians' union movement, according to Grace Budrys. She documents the emergence and development of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), founded in the San Francisco Bay area in 1972, and suggests it may be a harbinger of renewed organizing efforts throughout the country.
Budrys suggests that doctors' unions in general and the UAPD in particular may provide a model for other nontraditional groups and occupations seeking solutions to contemporary problems in the workplace. After discussing the laws governing workers' organizing rights and their interpretation by the courts, she concludes with commentary on the organizing activity taking place among highly paid and highly educated workers.

Author Biography

Grace Budrys is Professor of Sociology at DePaul University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Eruption of the Physicians' Union Movement	p. 8
Physicians' Strikes in the United States and Elsewhere	p. 18
Professionalism: Construction of the Concept	p. 32
The End of the Golden Age	p. 39
The Union's Formative Years	p. 48
The Changing Environment in the 1980s	p. 59
The Deprofessionalization of Medicine?	p. 64
The Mature Organization	p. 73
Why a Union and Not a Professional Association?	p. 87
From Cottage Industry to the Modern Era: The Industrialization Model	p. 97
Postindustrial Work: A New Class of Workers	p. 106
Is It Legal for Doctors to Form Unions?	p. 113
What Does the UAPD Do for Its Members?	p. 127
A Physician's Union: Harbinger or Anomaly?	p. 138
Other Unions and Their Future	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 137
Index	p. 173
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