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The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
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97/100Author:
Gabriel Winant
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Date:
March 23, 2021
A University of Chicago professor uses Pittsburgh as a case study to examine the transformation of the American working class from a unionized population of blue-collar men to a largely invisible group of underpaid women in service jobsâespecially health care, where the wrecked bodies of America's industrial past convalesce.
What The Reviewers Say
... an intimate look at how a city of steel became a city of health care aides.
... trenchant.
Winant is an academic historian, yet his book is marvelously accessible, produced in conversation with those workers, and taking seriously their own understanding of their lives.
In a triumph of social and political history, Gabriel Winant transforms our understanding of deindustrialization.
