Prescription for health-care social work - labor unions.
Publication Title
Social work in health care
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Keywords
Humans; Social Work; Labor Unions; Social Justice; Professionalism; Delivery of Health Care; Socioeconomic Factors; Health care; labor unions; medical social work.; washington; swedish; diversity
Abstract
Transformations in health care and attendant social work responses have eroded a health-care social work role grounded in holism and social justice. Tracing events at the intersection of social work, the labor movement, and health-care provision, this paper examines the evolution of social work's gravitation to micro-level practice and professionalism at the expense of macro practice, including labor organizing. It argues that engagement between health-care social work and labor unions is mutually beneficial and indispensable in preserving a role that reflects social work values in the face of massive socioeconomic inequality and health-care corporatization.
Specialty/Research Institute
Social Work
Specialty/Research Institute
Population Health
DOI
10.1080/00981389.2024.2408009.
