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What Do Healthcare Systems Owe the Working Class? with Gabe Winant

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The Role of Race and Gender in Healthcare

There's a kind of institutional history of these kinds of jobs. Healthcare, stick with our example, was not protected by labor law until the 1970s. By which time it was sort of too late to really change the structure of things. There's even a kind of cultural dimension to this, which I think matters some right in terms of how people think about these jobs and whose job it is to do them. And, you know, I think ultimately all of this is like all of these kind of layers of action where that embody like race and gender in different kinds of ways.

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