The History of Employment in the Steel Industry

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The question of care for incarcerated people is obviously a very politicaly important one that kind of comes out of this. And again, i think it's fair in some dimensions to see nursing homes as semi carcoral institutions. We can sort of imagine a group of people here to kind of exemplify this. It's very possible thate. S there are going to be fewer men who are able to win a bread winter wage and so she's likely to need a job herself.

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