Upheaval in the quiet zone: 1199SEIU and the politics of health care unionism

Before the union : the hospital worker as involuntary philanthropist

Awakening at Montefiore : the hospital that refused to fight

The brewing storm : organizing from the ground up

The battle of '59 : anatomy of a hospital strike

Staying alive : the search for legal recognition

Coming of age : building an effective union in the 1960s

Stayed on freedom : a labor crusade behind the Magnolia Curtain

High expectations and harsh realities : confronting a changing health care system in the 1970s

1199 exceptionalism : taking stock of the first generation

Union power, soul power : when the solution becomes the problem

Picking up the pieces : 1199's recipe for revival in the Dennis Rivera era

1199 exceptionalism revisited : the politics of partnership

Epilogue: SEIU health care : Rx for growth or a family feud?