Description
Book SynopsisWhat happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in racial outsourcing, relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do equity workextra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Health Care, Work, and Racial Outsourcing
2. “There Was That One Time . . .”
3. When “That One Time” Is All the Time
4. Sticky Floors and Social Tensions
5. It’s Not Grey’s Anatomy
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index
