Cleaning up : how hospital outsourcing is hurting workers and endangering patients /

"To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the conse...

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Huvudupphovsman: Zuberi, Dan
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013.
Serie:Culture and politics of health care work.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • "Stuff gets missed" : an introduction to a growing health care crisis
  • Germs, blood, and cost-cutting : the daily struggle to keep hospitals clean
  • Compromising cleanliness : how outsourcing keeps hospital workers from doing their jobs
  • Untrained workers, unfit managers
  • Breaking up the team
  • Down and out in Vancouver : struggling, stressed, and exhausted hospital support workers
  • Cleaning up.