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The next shift : the fall of industry and the rise of health care in Rust Belt America / Gabriel Winant.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, ©2021Description: 350 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674238091
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA410.54.U6 W56 2021
Contents:
Introduction: When workers disappear -- Down in the hole: steelmaking Pittsburgh in the 1950s -- Dirty laundry: labor and love in the working-class home -- "You are only poor if you have no one to turn to": race, geography, and cooperation -- Doctor New Deal: social rights and the making of the health care market -- Enduring disaster: the recycling of the working class -- "The task of survival": the commodification of care and the transformation of labor -- Epilogue: "All I am worth".
Summary: "This is the first comprehensive account of the health care workers who have been at the forefront of our fight against COVID-19. In fact, America's economy and politics have been, for years, increasingly defined by the growth of the healthcare industry, yet we have lacked convincing accounts of its rise and make-up. Winant delivers an incisive investigation of this new world"--
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RA410.53 .M336 2019 The price we pay : RA410.53 .P37 2011 Pay for performance in health care : RA410.53 .R448 2019 Priced out : RA410.54.U6 W56 2021 The next shift : RA410.55.G7 F56 2015 Financing medicine : RA410.6 .B75 2019 Human : RA410.6 .N49 2014 New leadership for today's health care professionals :

Includes index.

Introduction: When workers disappear -- Down in the hole: steelmaking Pittsburgh in the 1950s -- Dirty laundry: labor and love in the working-class home -- "You are only poor if you have no one to turn to": race, geography, and cooperation -- Doctor New Deal: social rights and the making of the health care market -- Enduring disaster: the recycling of the working class -- "The task of survival": the commodification of care and the transformation of labor -- Epilogue: "All I am worth".

"This is the first comprehensive account of the health care workers who have been at the forefront of our fight against COVID-19. In fact, America's economy and politics have been, for years, increasingly defined by the growth of the healthcare industry, yet we have lacked convincing accounts of its rise and make-up. Winant delivers an incisive investigation of this new world"--

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