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

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.Description: pages cmISBN:
  • 9780674238091
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/736210974 23
LOC classification:
  • RA410.54 .U6 W56 2021
Contents:
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".
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks RA410.54 .U6 W56 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001461523

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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