Hospital workers are not covered by american labor law. They're also, similarly, they're not covered by the fair labor standards act. This has long been a form of work that is assigned to marginal people in the labor market with relatively little labor market power. Is related kind of culturally, both to home work of the wife write, and has sot of similar maternal overtones often. And simultaneously, its also ated to domestic service culturally.
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.
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