Steel Work Schedules, You Know, Run 24 Hours a Day

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CNN's John Sutter looks at the family life of a steel mill worker. The wife has to make dinner for her husband, write and then cook again when he gets home from work. She also has to keep him from waking up during the next day by doing laundry in the middle of the night. Family is not just an economic function; people live their lives based on human needs and desires that conflict with one another.

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