Next Shift - The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

The American working class didn't disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar men, today's working class is dominated by underpaid women in service jobs-especially health care. With recognition of this shift, Gabriel Winant argues, may come political clout.

About the author

Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His writing about work, inequality, and capitalism in modern America has appeared in The Nation, the New Republic, Dissent, and n+1.

Summary

The American working class didn’t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar men, today’s working class is dominated by underpaid women in service jobs—especially health care. With recognition of this shift, Gabriel Winant argues, may come political clout.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Winant
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780674292192
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29219-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Health economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government policies, Economics of industrial organisation, Manufacturing industries, Central government policies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Economics of industrial organization, Industrial arbitration & negotiation, Industrial arbitration and negotiation