In the Crucible of Care: Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Care Economy
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-27

A lecture by Gabriel Winant analyzing the relationship between the decline of manufacturing employment and the employment growth of the healthcare sector in Pittsburgh, PA.

Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, which investigates the rise of the “service economy” in the aftermath of manufacturing. His second project, tentatively titled Our Weary Years: How the Working Class Survived Industrial America, explores similar problems in an earlier period. His writing also appears frequently in publications such as Dissent, n+1, and The Nation.