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The health care crucible

The health care crucible

by External Article | Apr 22, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

When industrial employment dominated the nation’s economy, such worlds were formed around the lives of the industrial working class. And when industry left, the social worlds that it sustained began to crumble. What emerged in its place was a recomposition not only...
Everyone Deserves Care

Everyone Deserves Care

by External Article | Apr 16, 2021 | Care Work Library, For Professional Caregivers, Outside Resources, Reviews | 0 comments

Gabe Winant is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. The book “traces the transformation of Pittsburgh, the archetypal industrial steel town, into a city powered by the labor of hospital workers. It...
How Health Care Became the Big Industry in Steel City

How Health Care Became the Big Industry in Steel City

by External Article | Mar 31, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

The replacement of blue-collar work by pink-collar work has been much discussed, but what makes this book stand out is Winant’s argument that two seemingly distinct phenomena are in fact inextricably connected: “It was not a coincidence that care labor grew as...

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