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How Health Care Became the Big Industry in Steel City
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How Health Care Became the Big Industry in Steel City



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  • Analytical
  • Overview
  • Background

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The United States has steadily been deindustrializing since the 1970s. Industry makes more sense in countries with cheaper labor, and now automation is finishing the job of kicking blue-collar workers to the curb. Still, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania identifies itself with steel production, though the city’s workers have shifted to the health care industry, and the caregivers employed there, primarily women, many of them POC, are far from the dream of high, union-protected wages and a prosperous life on a single income. Jennifer Szalai describes the transition in this New York Times report.

Take-Aways

  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was known for its steel production and good union jobs; now its major industry is health care.
  • Automation and deindustrialization coincided with the rise of the “public-private welfare state.”
  • Health care aides subsidize cheap care with their low wages.

About the Author

Jennifer Szalai is a nonfiction critic for The New York Times.


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