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• Winner of Gold Award, 2014 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Yea.

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While this empirically informed book makes for a quick and easy read, it is both informative and thought-provoking. Zuberi's book provides a wealth of evidence that the outsourcing of hospital jobs has resulted in deteriorating working conditions and that, in turn, such conditions are the cause of an increase in hospital acquired infections...undoubtedly a valuable addition to the literature on the quality of care in hospitals and its links to the privatisation and out-sourcing of healthcare services. -Eleanor K. Johnson,Sociology of Health and Illness(June 2015) In Cleaning Up, Dan Zuberi describes the alarming trend of rising hospital-based infection rates in North America. In compelling detail, he discusses the key role that hospital cleaning staff play in this problem and links rising rates of infection to deteriorating employment conditions. He shares the results of a qualitative research project he conducted that unveils the extreme financial difficulties many of these workers have experienced in the wake of the outsourcing of their jobs. He goes on to argue that while outsourcing may save money in the short term, it leads to deteriorating working conditions and living conditions for the cleaning staff, reduces the effectiveness of team functioning in hospitals, and may ultimately increase costs. -Christopher Paul Landrigan, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital Boston

<p> In Cleaning Up, Dan Zuberi describes the alarming trend of rising hospital-based infection rates in North America. In compelling detail, he discusses the key role that hospital cleaning staff play in this problem and links rising rates of infection to deteriorating employment conditions. He shares the results of a qualitative research project he conducted that unveils the extreme financial difficulties many of these workers have experienced in the wake of the outsourcing of their jobs. He goes on to argue that while outsourcing may save money in the short term, it leads to deteriorating working conditions and living conditions for the cleaning staff, reduces the effectiveness of team functioning in hospitals, and may ultimately increase costs. Christopher Paul Landrigan, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children s Hospital Boston

In Cleaning Up, Dan Zuberi describes the alarming trend of rising hospital-based infection rates in North America. In compelling detail, he discusses the key role that hospital cleaning staff play in this problem and links rising rates of infection to deteriorating employment conditions. He shares the results of a qualitative research project he conducted that unveils the extreme financial difficulties many of these workers have experienced in the wake of the outsourcing of their jobs. He goes on to argue that while outsourcing may save money in the short term, it leads to deteriorating working conditions and living conditions for the cleaning staff, reduces the effectiveness of team functioning in hospitals, and may ultimately increase costs. Christopher Paul Landrigan, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children s Hospital Boston

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Dan Zuberi is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Differences that Matter and Cleaning Up, both from Cornell.

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