RT Article
T1 Nurses and Labor Activism in the United States: The Role of Class, Gender, and Ideology
JF Social justice
VO 31
IS 3
SP 77
OP 104
A1 Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina 1975-
A2 Varano, Charles S. 1957-
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747158151
AB Part of a special issue on social justice for workers in the global economy. The relationship of class, gender, and ideology to the labor activism of nurses in the U.S. is analyzed. Nurses' strategies of professionalism and unionism within the patriarchal structures of society and, more particularly, of medicine are examined; and the role of class and gender in four main ideologies that historically characterize this female-dominated occupation—apprenticeship, professional, managerial, and unionist—is explored. Current ideological frameworks in nursing are outlined and the need to broaden the campaign for occupational justice in health-care provision to include a larger constituency and public good is discussed.
K1 Decision Making
K1 Political Participation
K1 Labor movement
K1 Ideology
K1 Nurses -- United States
K1 Labor unions -- United States
K1 Nurses' labor unions