Episode 15 - "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry & the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America"

Episode 15 - "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry & the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America"

Author: CUNY SLU May 3, 2021 Duration: 29:45
New Labor Forum Books and Arts Editor Samir Sonti hosts a conversation with Gabriel Winant, author of the recent book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. Examining the vast expansion of the health care sector of our economy over the past half-century, Winant traces its development to a combination of factors, including deindustrialization, union decline, an aging population, and a shredded social safety net. It is this historical process, Winant argues, that ushered in a burgeoning low-wage health care workforce disproportionately represented by women and people of color , who have become both essential and disposable, a contradiction made blatantly clear by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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