Organizing Against Healthcare Corporatization

Sorcha Brophy

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health

Award: $53,745

Sorcha’s project explores the dramatic rise in healthcare union mobilization in the US, occurring alongside the growing “problem” of healthcare corporatization, through a case study of “safe staffing” politics in Minnesota. Using ethnography and interviews with the Minnesota Nurses Association, lawmakers, hospital associations, and others, the research examines labor organizing and strategic engagement in the context of growing corporate power in U.S. healthcare.