| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : Meaningful Work and Moral Identity -- "El Nuevo South" : The Case of North Carolina and the Community Health Center Program -- Threats to Moral Identity and Disparity in "Moral" Wages -- Moral Identity and Racial Solidarity : How Lower-Status Workers Fashion a Superior Self -- "Neediest of the Needy" : How Midlevel-Status Workers View Their Work as "Moral" -- "Working in the Trenches" : How "Doing Good" Helps Higher-Status Staffers Build Their Moral Identity -- Moral Identity Construction and New Ethnic Relations |
| Summary |
Throughout the “New South,” relationships based on race, class, social status, gender, and citizenship are being upended by an influx of Latina/o residents. This book examines these issues as they play out in the microcosm of a community health center in North Carolina that previously had served mostly African American clients, but now serves predominantly Latina/o clients. Drawing on eighteen months of experience as a participant-observer in the clinic and in-depth interviews with clinic staff at all levels, the author provides an informative and fascinating view of how changing demographics are profoundly affecting the new social order. All of the healthcare workers want to be seen as “doing good.” But they fail to see how, in constructing and maintaining their own moral identity in response to their personal views and stereotypes, they have come to treat each other and their clients in ways that may contradict their ideals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social status -- Health aspects -- North Carolina
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Equality -- Health aspects -- North Carolina
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Community health services -- North Carolina -- Employees
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Discrimination in employment.
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Hispanic Americans -- North Carolina
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Hispanic Americans.
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Community Health Services
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Employment
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Health Workforce
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Hispanic or Latino
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Social Class
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Social Discrimination
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employing.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Hispanic Americans
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Equality -- Health aspects
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Discrimination in employment
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Community health services -- Employees
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North Carolina
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012030853 |
| ISBN |
0816599963 |
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9780816599967 |
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