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The next shift : the fall of industry and the rise of health care in Rust Belt America /

Winant, Gabriel.

The next shift : the fall of industry and the rise of health care in Rust Belt America / Gabriel Winant. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021. - pages cm.

Includes index.

Introduction: When workers disappear -- Down in the hole: steelmaking Pittsburgh in the 1950s -- Dirty laundry: labor and love in the working-class home -- "You are only poor if you have no one to turn to": race, geography, and cooperation -- Doctor New Deal: social rights and the making of the health care market -- Enduring disaster: the recycling of the working class -- "The task of survival": the commodification of care and the transformation of labor -- Epilogue: "All I am worth".

"This is the first comprehensive account of the health care workers who have been at the forefront of our fight against COVID-19. In fact, America's economy and politics have been, for years, increasingly defined by the growth of the healthcare industry, yet we have lacked convincing accounts of its rise and make-up. Winant delivers an incisive investigation of this new world"--

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Medical economics--Northeastern States.
Medical economics--Middle West.
Community health aides--Northeastern States.
Community health aides--Middle West.
Industries--Northeastern States.
Industries--Middle West.


Northeastern States--Economic conditions.
Middle West--Economic conditions.

RA410.54 .U6 / W56 2021

338.4/736210974

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