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The Next Shift
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The Next Shift

The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

Harvard UP, 2021 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Eye Opening
  • Hot Topic

Recommendation

Professor of history at the University of Chicago Gabriel Winant explores the origins of problems with the United States’ health care system that rose to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas once were America’s manufacturing hub. Its steel mills provided security for thousands of blue-collar workers and their families. When this industry collapsed, another arose: medical and social care.

Take-Aways

  • The United States’ care industry faces a “trilemma”: a choice between low wages, high unemployment or costly state intervention.
  • Pittsburgh, with its industrial heritage, provides an ideal setting to study the development of today’s polarized US labor market.
  • Steel industry complacency and strong unions exacerbated the effects of a declining steel market.

About the Author

Assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago Gabriel Winant focuses on the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism.


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