How Did the Industrialization Take Shape?

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A major federal overhaul in the 19 eighties was intended to control costs by discouraging long hospital stays, but inadvertently promoted more aggressive medical interventions. In doing so, it also set off a massive consolidation of health care benefiting corporate health empires that emerged from prestigious, academic medical centers. How did this, how did this next intense phase of consolidation take shape? This system of expanding medical centrs on the one hand, in dying community hospitals on the other,. all against the back drop of post post volcar shock ragin era social state retrenchment.? Yes, so i think let's start, let's start with that last point.

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