[URPE] new book on the political economy of job training and health care

[Ariel Ducey]

Cornell University Press has just published my (first!) book on  
education and job training in the health care sector, a sociological  
book under the influence of radical political economy. Cheers, Ariel  
Ducey

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Ariel Ducey, Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False  
Promise of Job Training. Cornell University Press, 2009.

Description: In Never Good Enough, Ariel Ducey assesses the  
investment of hundreds of millions of dollars  for training and  
educating frontline health care workers in New York beginning in the  
mid-1990s. In her thoughtful and provocative critique, Ariel Ducey  
explores the history and the extent of job training initiatives for  
health care workers and lays out the political, economic, and  
emotional significance of these programs beyond the obvious goal of  
career advancement.

Examining the most heavily funded training programs, she argues that  
both the content of many training and education programs and the  
sheer commitment of time they require pressure individual health care  
workers to compensate for the irrationalities of America's health  
care system, for the fact that caring labor is devalued, and for the  
inequities of an economy driven by the relentless creation of  
underpaid service jobs. In so doing, the book also analyzes the roles  
that unions--particularly SEIU 1199 in New York--and the city's  
academic institutions have played in this problematic phenomenon.

The book is based on Ducey's three years as an ethnographer in  
several hospitals and in-depth interviews with key players in health  
care training. It argues that training and education cannot be a  
panacea for restructuring—whether in the health care sector or the  
economy as a whole.

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5280


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