What's Happening in the Nursing Home?

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The pandemic intensified that, but didn't create it. That's the theme of the contradiction between the growing socialization of labor and the privatization of property. The grand dialectic is what a your ant durborne, the sociologist, calls it. At one point the working class becomes increasingly interdependent on one anotheran interrelated and how we live. But the way that property is organized, legally and politically prevents that interdependence from manifesting in the form of a real social interdependence.

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