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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gabriel Winant
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.04.2023
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9780674292192
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29219-2
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Categorie: Welfare State, Union, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Health economics, Segregation, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Wages, Covid 19, Middle Class, Pandemic, Strike, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government policies, Economics of industrial organisation, Manufacturing industries, African Americans, Central government policies, Labor History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Economics of industrial organization, Medicare, Industrial arbitration & negotiation, Industrial arbitration and negotiation, Medicaid, nurses, Collective bargaining, Emotional labor, care work; emotional labor; affective labor; industrial decline; hospital worker; labor history; pandemic; covid 19; nurses; shortage; understaffed; medicare; medicaid; union; strike; collective bargaining; welfare state; wages; middle class; african, shortage, understaffed, Affective labor, health care utilization, industrial decline, blue cross, hospital worker