The Great Resignation

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The great resignation among workers in general and among health care workers. Is it a sign of labor militancy to come? Or is it a politically neutred substitute for strikes at a moment of profound weakness for organized labor, thus of working class disorganization? Gabe wynet teaches history at the university of chicago. His first book is the next shift, the fall of industry and the rise of health care in rust belt america.

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