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i Rapport från Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2002, s. 5
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26 Tom O'Brien, »Targeting Tories: how the Nova Scotia
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27 See Joni Ketter, »Nurses and Strikes: a Perspective from
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28 Pertti Jokivuori, »Nurses’ Union Rejects Pay Offer and
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Observatory (EIRO) Online, 12 november 2007 http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2007/10/articles/fi0710039i.htm
29 »TEHY tillkännager krav, hotar med massuppsägning», 9
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30 Pertti Jokivuori, »Controversy over Law Restricting Right
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31 »Nurses Union Announces More Resignations», 12 nov
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32 »Labour market experts doubt nurses will get pay hikes
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33 Pertti Jokivuori, »Nurses’ Dispute in Settlement Talks»,
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11/articles/fi0711019i.htm
34 ibid.
35 Gary D. Brown, Anna-Marie Greaney, Mary E Kelly-
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36 Regina Leader-Post 7 maj 1999.
37 Judy Darcy & Catherine Lauzon, »The Right to Strike»,
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38 Brown et al. 2006, s.206f.
39 Karen Jennings & Glenda Western, »A Right to Strike?»,
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40 Brown et al 2006, s. 205f.
41 Lisa Hayes, »Nurses on Strike», i Aaron Brenner, Benjamin
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42 Paul Clark & Darlene Clark, »Union Strategies for Improving
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43 Paul Clark & Darlene Clark, »Union Strategies for Improving
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44 Sarah Hayward & Elizabeth Fee, »More in Sorrow Than in
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45 ibid
46 Frederik Ohsten, »Denmark: 100,000 Public Sector Workers
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47 Jokivuori 2007.
48 Jan Czarzasty, »Pay Disputes in Public Health Sector Escalate»,
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49 Marius Heuser, »The Way Forward in the Polish Doctors
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50 Seishi Katsuragi, (1997) »Better Working Conditions Won
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51 Coulter 1993, s. 55f.
52 Globe and Mail, 28 juni 1999.
53 Haiven and Haiven 2002, s. 7f
54 Hambling 2002, s. 12f.
55 Helen Marot, »A Woman's Strike - An Appreciation of the
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56 Ruth Milkman, »Editor’s Preface», i Ruth Milkman (red.),
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57 Charlotte Yates, »Challenging Misconceptions about Organizing
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58 Linda Briskin, »Gendering Labour Militancies», uppsats
presenterad vid Gender, Work and Organization Konferens, Keele
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Judith Bessant, »‘Good Women and Good Nurses’ Conflicting
Identities in the Victorian Nurses Strikes, 1985-6», i Labour
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LINDA BRISKIN
är verksam vid Social Science Department and School of Women’s
Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. Hon har bland
annat forskat om kvinnor i fackliga organisationer och kvinnors
organisering i Kanada och Sverige.
ABSTRACT
In recent decades, nurses have gone on strike in large numbers
and in many countries. They have also used innovative non-strike
tactics of resistance such as mass resignations. This article explores
nurse militancy through strike narratives. It argues that in recent
decades, the professional commitments of nurses to the provision
of care have confronted health care restructuring, nursing
shortages, intensification of work, precarious employment and
gendered hierarchies with a militant discourse around the public
interest, and a reconstitution and reclamation of caring work,
what I call the politicization of caring. This research suggests that
nurses’ dedication to caring work may now encourage rather than
dissuade them from going on strike. It also highlights the widespread
public support for nurses, even when they go on strike
illegally.
Finally, nurse militancy challenges commonsense misconceptions
that women workers are passive and unlikely to strike. It
problematizes the associations of militancy with men, masculinity
and manliness. In fact, in its capacity to build public support,
nurse militancy helps to mainstream and legitimize militancy itself.
Nurse militancy and coalition-building are part of a long tradition
of union women’s organizing and resistance which may
provide untapped potential to defend public services, protect
workers’ rights, and invigorate the union renewal project.
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