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Gabriel Winant: From the Factory to the Hospital

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The Pandemic - Is the Book Essential Work?

The pandemic is just sort of briefly alluded to in the final page of the book. The phrase essential worker is taken, in my experience by health care workers I know as a kind of mockery of the world arise,. If you say it, and you know what is the content of, but sorry let me take stuff back so, but I think it's important actually to think about where did this phrase arise from. And if they're not treated as essential or that individually we could say they're disposable which was an argument already argued even before the pandemic came.

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