Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patient
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801478960
ISBN-13
9780801478963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167414932
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Publication Name
Cleaning Up : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Language
English
Subject
Infectious Diseases, Hospital Administration & Care
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical
Series
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-013924
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advancedindustrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude ofthe problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation. Sadly,even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy inhis new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospital support staff outsourcingon patients and workers."-Adam Seth Litwin, Work and Occupations (October 2014), A book like this could easily read as a litany of woe and injustice, but the finalchapter, simply titled Cleaning Up, seeks to provide a roadmap forward thataddresses HAIs and worker justice....The book is written in an engaging and polemical style and the subject matterlends itself to catchy chapter titles and by-lines., "With honourable exceptions the New Canadian Political Economy School neglected making the domestic bourgeoisie an object of serious study. Joining Empire is an important correction of that cardinal deficiency. We now have a theoretically sophisticated and up-to-date account of how Canadian foreign and security policy expreses the class interests of Candadian capital."--Bill Burgess, AU Press (Fall 2015), "Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advancedindustrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude ofthe problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation. Sadly,even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy inhis new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospital support staff outsourcingon patients and workers."--Adam Seth Litwin, Work and Occupations (October 2014), "A book like this could easily read as a litany of woe and injustice, but the finalchapter, simply titled Cleaning Up, seeks to provide a roadmap forward thataddresses HAIs and worker justice. . . .The book is written in an engaging and polemical style and the subject matterlends itself to catchy chapter titles and by-lines."--Shaun Ryan, Journal of Industrial Relations(November 2014), "A book like this could easily read as a litany of woe and injustice, but the finalchapter, simply titled Cleaning Up, seeks to provide a roadmap forward thataddresses HAIs and worker justice. . . .The book is written in an engaging and polemical style and the subject matterlends itself to catchy chapter titles and by-lines."-Shaun Ryan, Journal of Industrial Relations(November 2014), "In Cleaning Up, Dan Zuberi describes the alarming trend of rising hospital-based infection rates in North America. In compelling detail, he discusses the key role that hospital cleaning staff play in this problem and links rising rates of infection to deteriorating employment conditions. He shares the results of a qualitative research project he conducted that unveils the extreme financial difficulties many of these workers have experienced in the wake of the outsourcing of their jobs. He goes on to argue that while outsourcing may save money in the short term, it leads to deteriorating working conditions and living conditions for the cleaning staff, reduces the effectiveness of team functioning in hospitals, and may ultimately increase costs."-Christopher Paul Landrigan, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital Boston, While this empirically informed book makes for a quick and easy read, it is both informative and thought-provoking. Zuberi's book provides a wealth of evidence that the outsourcing of hospital jobs has resulted in deteriorating working conditions and that, in turn, such conditions are the cause of an increase in hospital acquired infections....undoubtedly a valuable addition to the literature on the quality of care in hospitals and its links to the privatisation and out-sourcing of healthcare services., "While this empirically informed book makes for a quick and easy read, it is both informative and thought-provoking. Zuberi's book provides a wealth of evidence that the outsourcing of hospital jobs has resulted in deteriorating working conditions and that, in turn, such conditions are the cause of an increase in hospital acquired infections. . . .undoubtedly a valuable addition to the literature on the quality of care in hospitals and its links to the privatisation and out-sourcing of healthcare services."-Eleanor K. Johnson,Sociology of Health and Illness(June 2015), "Cleaning Up affords its readers crucial insight into the healthcare industry, closely examining thesocial and economic costs of profit-driven healthcare. Healthcare policy affects so many people:workers, patients, and all of their families. Zuberi succeeds in proving his point: it is time to take actionto improve our healthcare system."-Michelle A. Dressner, Monthly Labor Review (December 2015), Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advancedindustrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude ofthe problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation. Sadly,even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy inhis new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospital support staff outsourcingon patients and workers., "Cleaning Up affords its readers crucial insight into the healthcare industry, closely examining thesocial and economic costs of profit-driven healthcare. Healthcare policy affects so many people:workers, patients, and all of their families. Zuberi succeeds in proving his point: it is time to take actionto improve our healthcare system."--Michelle A. Dressner, Monthly Labor Review (December 2015), Cleaning Up affords its readers crucial insight into the healthcare industry, closely examining thesocial and economic costs of profit-driven healthcare. Healthcare policy affects so many people:workers, patients, and all of their families. Zuberi succeeds in proving his point: it is time to take actionto improve our healthcare system., "In Cleaning Up, Dan Zuberi describes the alarming trend of rising hospital-based infection rates in North America. In compelling detail, he discusses the key role that hospital cleaning staff play in this problem and links rising rates of infection to deteriorating employment conditions. He shares the results of a qualitative research project he conducted that unveils the extreme financial difficulties many of these workers have experienced in the wake of the outsourcing of their jobs. He goes on to argue that while outsourcing may save money in the short term, it leads to deteriorating working conditions and living conditions for the cleaning staff, reduces the effectiveness of team functioning in hospitals, and may ultimately increase costs."--Christopher Paul Landrigan, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital Boston, "While this empirically informed book makes for a quick and easy read, it is both informative and thought-provoking. Zuberi's book provides a wealth of evidence that the outsourcing of hospital jobs has resulted in deteriorating working conditions and that, in turn, such conditions are the cause of an increase in hospital acquired infections. . . .undoubtedly a valuable addition to the literature on the quality of care in hospitals and its links to the privatisation and out-sourcing of healthcare services."--Eleanor K. Johnson,Sociology of Health and Illness(June 2015)
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
362.110684
Table Of Content
1. "Stuff Gets Missed": An Introduction to a Growing Health Care Crisis2. Germs, Blood, and Cost-Cutting: The Daily Struggle to Keep Hospitals Clean3. Compromising Cleanliness: How Outsourcing Keeps Hospital Workers from Doing Their Jobs4. Untrained Workers, Unfit Managers5. Breaking Up the Team6. Down and Out in Vancouver: Struggling, Stressed, and Exhausted Hospital Support Workers7. Cleaning Up Notes References Index
Synopsis
Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing hospital cleaning and food preparation from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality., 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 consequences of outsourcing from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on years of field research in Vancouver, Canada as well as data from hospitals in the U.S. and Europe, he argues that outsourcing has been disastrous for the cleanliness of hospitals--leading to an increased risk of hospital-acquired infections, a leading cause of severe illness and death--as well as for the effective delivery of other hospital services and the workers themselves. Zuberi's interviews with the low-wage workers who keep hospitals running uncover claims of exposure to near-constant risk of injury and illness. Many report serious concerns about the quality of the work due to understaffing, high turnover, poor training and experience, inadequate cleaning supplies, and on-the-job injuries. Zuberi also presents policy recommendations for improving patient safety by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infection and ameliorating the work conditions and quality of life of hospital support workers. He makes the case that hospital outsourcing exemplifies the trend towards "low-road" service-sector jobs that threatens to undermine society's social health, as well as the physical health and well-being of patients in health care settings globally., 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 consequences of outsourcing from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on years of field research in Vancouver, Canada as well as data from hospitals in the U.S. and Europe, he argues that outsourcing has been disastrous for the cleanliness of hospitals--leading to an increased risk of hospital-acquired infections, a leading cause of severe illness and death--as well as for the effective delivery of other hospital services and the workers themselves.Zuberi's interviews with the low-wage workers who keep hospitals running uncover claims of exposure to near-constant risk of injury and illness. Many report serious concerns about the quality of the work due to understaffing, high turnover, poor training and experience, inadequate cleaning supplies, and on-the-job injuries. Zuberi also presents policy recommendations for improving patient safety by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infection and ameliorating the work conditions and quality of life of hospital support workers. He makes the case that hospital outsourcing exemplifies the trend towards "low-road" service-sector jobs that threatens to undermine society's social health, as well as the physical health and well-being of patients in health care settings globally.
LC Classification Number
RA975.5.H6Z83 2013
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