The role of ideological radicals, who had articulated the common interests of mass production workers with one another across lines of race and skill and ethenicity, was wiped out. By the late forties and early fifties, increasingly was unable to kind of play the role it had once played as a leading edge or sort of vanguard formation. The c i o meant something for millions of americans in the thirties because it was the leading organized force that was fighting for social security and child labor.
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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