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A historian friend once taught me the German word Zeitgenossen, explaining that it referred to one’s contemporaries, or members of one’s generation, but also more particularly connoted something like a “time-comrade.” Gabe Winant has become a great time-comrade to me, a thinker whose insights into questions of history and generationality, kinship and aging, have deeply enriched my own thinking on these subjects. His first book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America , traces the transformation of Pittsburgh, the archetypal industrial stee...

Praise for The Next Shift “How the health-care industry replaced manufacturing while downgrading the quality of American middle-class life, furthering inequality, and fueling political bitter divisions is the welcome subject of Gabriel Winant’s  The Next Shift . . . Winant weaves together a convincing argument that this downward mobility has been driven by a gendered and racist political economy that values many things—from retiree health care to CEO pay—more than care work by women and people of color.” —John W. Miller,  Democracy “Beautifully written, extensively researche...

Care Work Is Climate Work Overhauling the economy to cool the planet will require huge investments in care work. Biden’s infrastructure plan is just the start. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP/Getty Images “What is infrastructure?” Somehow, this is the question under debate right now, thanks to America’s antiquated political system, which has made it virtually impossible to pass anything that isn’t a giant omnibus bill by the slimmest of margins. That could well make the recently proposed “infrastructure bill” President Biden’s last, best chance to jam something through the budget rec...

(Mario Tama / Getty) A dozen years ago, I visited the Chicago offices of the National Nurses Organizing Committee on the city’s West Side. Visible through a large window was a gigantic parking garage, an annex to one of the equally huge hospitals clustered within a dozen blocks. Cook County, Mount Sinai, and three other medical complexes employed tens of thousands of workers. Among those seeking to organize them was an African American NNOC staffer. Books in Review The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America By Gabriel Winant She told me she wa...

Manufacturing Isn’t Coming Back. Let’s Improve These Jobs Instead. Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions. By Gabriel Winant Dr. Winant is the author of “The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.” March 17, 2021 Credit...Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images In Congress and the White House, policymakers are developing a bill that is expected to pour trillions into updating American transit, energy and utility systems. Repairs are certainly necessary, an...