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This episode of the dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patrion dot com, and by rose metal press. One that you might like is the after normal, brief alphabetic essays on a changing planet by david carlan and nicoll walker. How did the american economy go from unionized industry in sectors like steel to precarious service work in industries like hospitals? The new deal era is often considered a golden age for the white working class. In many ways, it was. But right wing reaction curbed the labor movement's most radical ambitions. Today, as the pandemic has pushed our health care system and the workers who run it to the breaking

Historian Gabriel Winant discusses The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. It's a fascinating study of the emergence of the service sector and a new working class out of the wreckage of deindustrialization through the story of the rise and fall of unionized steel in Pittsburgh and its replacement by a massive hospital industry. Listen to my past interview with Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral state, social media, religion, and more thedigradio.com/podcast/the-social-question-with-gabriel-winant Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, by David Carlin and Nicole Walker rosemetalpress.com/books/the-after-normal