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Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (The Culture and Politics of Health ...
Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, ...

ILR Press, 2008

Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient ...

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
Janice Fine

ILR Press, 2006

Low-wage workers in the United States face obstacles including racial and ethnic discrimination, a pervasive lack of wage enforcement, misclassification of their employment, and for some, their status as undocumented immigrants. In the past, political parties, unions, and fraternal and mutual-aid societies served as important vehicles for workers who hoped to achieve political and economic integration. As these traditional civic institutions ...

Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty (ILR Press Books)

1 review
Virginia E. Schein

ILR Press, 1995

One of a Kind
After reading Working From the Margins, I have a whole new insight into the lives of single mothers in poverty. The author, Virginia Schein, really gets deep into the lives of the thirty women she interviews in this book. While reading through the book, a reader can really feel the pains and struggles of each and everyone of the thirty women interviewed for the book. Whether one of the women ...

The State of Working America, 2006/2007 (State of Working America)

2 reviews
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

ILR Press, 2006

Change Is Needed Now and Here's Why
If you can wade your way through the statistics, this book is enlightening and edifying, often sad. The commentary and interpretation help clarify the wealth of information. It graphically illustrates that nothing has changed after all these years of hope and promises for change: the rich keep getting richer, the poor keep getting poorer, poverty is endemic to our tired, unimaginative economic ...

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

12 reviews
Suzanne Gordon

ILR Press, 2007

Summarizes nursing's role in the current health care arena.
A must read for all those working IN or WITH the profession of nursing. Gordon discusses how the changes in our health care system have affected both the nurses role and quality patient care issues. The essential need for collaboration of all health care personnel is woven throughout the content. I required this book for a senior nursing course I just taught at Wayne State University in ...

The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

2 reviews

ILR Press, 2006

A must read for the modern nurse
I purchased this book and "Nursing Against the Odds" by Gordan at the same time. While this book provided inspiring articulation of my own thoughts at this point in my career, the other one was just depressing. I coasted through this book of essays by different authors and felt empowered and encouraged. The chapter by Diana Mason was particularly interesting for me. I think this is a timely ...

Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out

ILR Press, 2008

A. Pia Abola, San Francisco, California Caroline (Cal) Baier-Anderson, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Environmental Defense Joan S. Baizer, University at Buffalo Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology Aviva Brecher, US Department of Transportation, Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Teresa Capone Cook, American Heritage Academy Carol B. de Wet, Franklin & Marshall College Kimberly D'Anna, University of ...

From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know And Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition

8 reviews
Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon

ILR Press, 2006

Finding Voice
From Silence to Voice by Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon is a must-read for all nurses. The message of the book is one nurses need to hear: talk about your work, show the world what you do, communicate the fact that nursing is skilled, responsible and interesting work. Buresh and Gordon make clear that much of the devaluing of nursing arises out of the fact that nurses avoid the limelight. ...

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine ...

13 reviews
Suzanne Gordon

ILR Press, 2006

Nursing against the Odds
This a a very good, and easy to read nursing text book. It flows well because of the real life stories and examples that all of us at the bedside can relate to. It makes you think about what you do, and what you say. How these things can and do impact patient care, and relationships with staff, patients, facilty, etc. We are such a necessary part of the bigger picture, and this book helps ...

Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market

6 reviews
William Finlay, James E. Coverdill

ILR Press, 2007

Best comprehensive headhunting book for headhunters
I have been working in this field for 25 years, and read most of the major books. Although I am a big fan of Bill Radin, this book blew me away. Perhaps it's social science orientation rather than "war stories" that you find in other books of this ilk. True, as another reviewer says it does not have a major web focus, but the web is a tool and more for HR than headhunters. Companies don't pay 5, ...

On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker (ILR Press Books)

3 reviews
Laurie Graham

ILR Press, 1995

Very enlightening book concerning Japanese transplants.
This book is a very good account of the process a person had to go through in order to gain employment at the Subaru-Isuzu and the working conditions that were present at the plant at the time the author worked there. There continue to be problems at the plant with them being cited by IOSHA (Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration) on August 20,1998 for not recording all safety ...

New Working-Class Studies (ILR Press Book)

ILR Press, 2005

"We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or about workers of any particular kind, or workers in any particular place—even in the workplace. Instead, we ask questions about how class works for people at work, at home, and in the community. We explore how class both unites and divides working-class people, which highlights the importance of ...

The Triangle Fire

11 reviews
Leon Stein

ILR Press, 2001

Life changing book
I read an older edition of this book when I was in college. Of all the books I have ever read, this one had the most profound impact on my life...and political views. (In fact, roughly 15 years after first reading this book, I spent a lot of time searching hard-to-find titles on the internet for a copy to own.) I still remember reading this in the college library, with tears of utter horror ...

The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (ILR Press Book)

8 reviews
Michael Zweig

ILR Press, 2001

Best book on US Social Classes in the last Decade
Zweig's book is an empirical and analytical tour de force. In rigorous fashion he outlines the current class structure of the US in terms of power and control in the workplace. He proves the continuing relevance of class analysis in an era when most Americans consider themselves middle class, and he aptly describes the class war which the "ruling elite" has been precipitating on the working ...

What's Class Got to Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century

1 review

ILR Press, 2004

Class is power not money
This collection of essays addresses an often overlooked aspect of American culture: class. The introduction makes a good case that class is really more about power than money, but the other essays do not always pick up on this theme. The essays do cover a lot of ground, so consider it an introduction to the topic. Except for the last powerful essay by Barbara Jensen the authors of the book seem ...

From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
Carol Chetkovich, Frances Kunreuther

ILR Press, 2007

"Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement- building in the United States. They provide political education and sites for constituent engagement, and they are beginning to create networks across issues and/or communities; they promote home-grown leadership among groups that have been disadvantaged; they contribute to a shared understanding of the problems of inequality and injustice; and they offer a ...

What Workers Want (Copublished With Russell Sage Foundation)

1 review
Richard B. Freeman, Joel Rogers

ILR Press, 2006

What Workers Want
Finally a book that ask's workers what they want, rather than some pontification of a organizational theory or anecdotal information by a Ivory Tower Guru. The authors used a multi-part survey that ask workers about what they wanted - participation in the organizations is what the workers seeked. Workers voiced their opinion in that they believe that greater participation in their jobs and ...

Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and ...

2 reviews
Paul V. Dutton

ILR Press, 2007

French Health Care: An Alternative Model to Single-Payer?
Once again with an upcoming election health care shows itself a major concern of the American people. Health care costs are soaring, the ranks of the uninsured and underinsured are increasing, over 50% of bankruptcies are due to medical expenses and employers are dropping coverage. Not only is our system the most expensive by far in the world; but the most complex and bureaucratic. Its costs ...

Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide

7 reviews
Thomas Edward Gass

ILR Press, 2005

A candid and compassionate story
At 189 pages, the book does a wonderful job of telling the story of a CNA who goes to work in a nursing home in the Midwest after the death of his mohter. He wants to do meaningful work that would gain depth to his character. He is not the typical aide, having spent years working and learning in a variety of areas. His past experiences and education allow him to write about the job, the nursing ...

Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement

1 review

ILR Press, 2004

Excellent book for Union Organizers!
This book is a good reference tool for the novice Union Organizer. I recommend it highly. It goes over alot of stuff you already know, but it is good to be reminded of such!

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