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Episode: Gabriel Winant
Pub date: 2021-02-23

Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:

Focussing on how blue-collar manufacturing jobs in Pittsburgh were eventually replaced by female-dominated, yet lower-paid and less stable, positions in healthcare services. The conversation also touches on what this story says about the working class and the future of work.

On this week’s episode we talk to Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago, about his forthcoming book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. In it, he focuses on the political economy of Pittsburgh since World War II—specifically, how blue-collar manufacturing jobs were eventually replaced by female-dominated, yet lower-paid and less stable, positions in healthcare services. In this conversation, we mostly just try to understand his deep and informative argument. We also speculate about the future of work and discuss what this story should tell us about the working class.

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