Cleaning Up : : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients / / Dan Zuberi.
To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequence...
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