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The city is no longer America’s steeltown. But how did it become a leader in health care? Author Gabriel Winant explains how economic realities allowed this service industry to emerge from the region’s old labor movement.
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Gabriel Winant’s book de-emphasizes manufacturing and highlights care workers. But it neglects the forces of power that keep all workers down.
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BPR Interviews: Gabriel Winant April 22, 2021 was published in March 2021. Miles Munkacy: Starting at the very beginning of the history presented in your recent book, can you explain the relationship between industrial workers and service workers from the 1940s to the 1970s? How did the success of one contribute to the decline of the other, and vice versa? Gabriel Winant: What we really want to understand to approach this question is the partial and particular nature of economic security under the New Deal state. When I say New Deal state, I mean the set of institutions that were constructed...