What's the Story of the War on Poverty?

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The poor and the economically marginal in the fifties and sixties were, in fact, the first people to be displaced by de industrialization. The number of coal mining jobs has fallen bylick over half from 19 50 to 19 60. People who would have once been attached to or part of the security of the steel industry are now excluded from it. And thus doesn't propose a problem for the private insurance companies, because it's insuring people who the private insurance s aren't insurers in the first plac right exact. It pposes no thread at all to the private provision of care, right?

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