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The Next Shift - The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (Paperback)
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The Next Shift - The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (Paperback)
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Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the Isaac
and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner of the C. L. R. James
Award A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A ProMarket
Best Political Economy Book of the Year “The Next Shift is an
original work of serious scholarship, but it’s also vivid and
readable…Eye-opening.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “A
deeply upsetting book…Winant ably blends social and political
history with conventional labor history to construct a remarkably
comprehensive narrative with clear contemporary implications.”
—Scott W. Stern, New Republic “Terrific…A useful guide to the
sweeping social changes that have shaped a huge segment of the
economy and created the dystopian world of contemporary
service-sector work.” —Nelson Lichtenstein, The Nation
Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel, but today most of its
mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a
city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now
dominated by health care, which employs more Americans than any
other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to
show how America’s cities have weathered new economic realities.
As steelworkers and their families grew older, they required more
health care. Even as the industrial economy contracted sharply, the
care economy thrived. But unlike their blue-collar predecessors,
home health aides and hospital staff work unpredictable hours for
low pay. Today health care workers—mostly women and people of
color—are on the front lines of our most pressing crises, yet we
have been slow to appreciate that they are the face of our
twenty-first-century workforce. The Next Shift offers unique
insights into how we got here and what could happen next.
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