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Flatlining race, work, and health care in the new economy Adia Harvey Wingfield.

By: Wingfield, Adia Harvey, 1977-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California University of California Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 0520971787; 9780520971783Subject(s): United States | African Americans in medicine | Social medicine -- United States | Equality -- United States | African Americans in medicine | Equality | Social medicine | HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism | HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference | MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine | MEDICAL / Atlases | MEDICAL / Essays | MEDICAL / Family & General Practice | MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine | MEDICAL / Osteopathy | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social ClassesGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks Additional physical formats: Print version:: FlatliningDDC classification: 610.089/96073 LOC classification: R695Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- Work, health care, and racial outsourcing -- "There was that one time..." -- When "that one time" is all the time -- Sticky floors and social tensions -- It's not Grey's anatomy.
Summary: "What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how organizations serving communities of color participate in "racial outsourcing," heavily relying on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to pick up the slack and perform "equity work"--labor that varies by gender and helps organizations to be accessible to minority communities. Wingfield argues that as organizations become more focused on profit and less beholden to employees, they depend on black health care workers to do this work but offer fewer resources and while maintaining the expectation of high levels of service to the community. At the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the harrowing challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Work, health care, and racial outsourcing -- "There was that one time..." -- When "that one time" is all the time -- Sticky floors and social tensions -- It's not Grey's anatomy.

"What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how organizations serving communities of color participate in "racial outsourcing," heavily relying on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to pick up the slack and perform "equity work"--labor that varies by gender and helps organizations to be accessible to minority communities. Wingfield argues that as organizations become more focused on profit and less beholden to employees, they depend on black health care workers to do this work but offer fewer resources and while maintaining the expectation of high levels of service to the community. At the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the harrowing challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities"--Provided by publisher.

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