Samuel Wolfe

• Preface PART 1: Worker Conflict in the Health FieldWorker Conflicts in the Health Field: An Overview Samuel Wolfe Health Worker Strikes: Social and Economic Bases of Conflict Robin F. Badgley Organization and Unionization of Health Workers in the United States: The Trade Union Perspective Leon J. Davis and Moe Foner Unionization, Strikes, Threatened Strikes, and Hospitals: The View from Hospital Management Robert K. Match, Arnold H. Goldstein, and Harold L. Light The Purposes of Unionization in the Medical Profession: The Unionized Profession's Perspective in the United States Sanford A. Marcus Hospital Workers: Class Conflicts in the Making Barbara Ehrenreichand John H. Ehrenreich An International Perspective on Strikes and Strike Threats by Physicians: The Case of Chile Roberto Belmar and Victor W. Sidel Unions and Strikes in the National Health Service in Britain David Widgery PART 2: Allied Workers, Nurses, WomenThe Division of Laborers: Allied Health Professions Carol A. Brown The Development of the Nursing Labor Force in the United States: A Basic Analysis Kathleen Cannings and William Lazonick Women Workers in the Health Service Industry Carol A. Brown Barriers to the Nurse Practitioner Movement: Problems of Women in a Woman's Field Bonnie Bullough Women's Emancipation and Socialism: The Case of the People's Republic of Poland Magdalena Sokolowska Contributors