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Next Shift with Gabriel Winant

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The Civil Rights Movement and Health Care Workplaces

Low wages in bad conditions produced a nation wide uprising of black health care workers in the late 19 sixties. This movement arrived in pittsburg in november 19 69, and ther slogan was, union power, soul power. How did racialized engender class power shape hospitals exploitation of black workers during this period when hospital growth just began to explode? And then what sort of racialized, engendered, working class consciousness animated 11 99 struggle to fight back? Yes.

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