Next Shift
The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
WW Norton · Print & ebook · April 1, 2023
Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner of the C.
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A vivid account of how industrial cities became centers of health care.
- Genres
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Health Care Policy, Healthcare Industry
- Published
- WW Norton, April 1, 2023
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
Survival of the CityEdward Glaeser, David Cutler56% match
An American SicknessElisabeth Rosenthal65% matchShares Health Care Policy and Healthcare Industry
Power and ProgressDaron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson50% match
For younger readers: Shift Happens: the History of Labor in the United States, Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner of the C. L. R. James Award A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year “The Next Shift is an original work of serious scholarship, but it’s also vivid and readable…Eye-opening.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “A deeply upsetting book…Winant ably blends social and political history with conventional labor history to construct a remarkably comprehensive narrative with clear contemporary implications.” —Scott W. Stern, New Republic “Terrific…A useful guide to the sweeping social changes that have shaped a huge segment of the economy and created the dystopian world of contemporary service-sector work.” —Nelson Lichtenstein, The Nation Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel, but today most of its mills are gone.
Continue reading
Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America’s cities have weathered new economic realities. As steelworkers and their families grew older, they required more health care. Even as the industrial economy contracted sharply, the care economy thrived. But unlike their blue-collar predecessors, home health aides and hospital staff work unpredictable hours for low pay. Today health care workers—mostly women and people of color—are on the front lines of our most pressing crises, yet we have been slow to appreciate that they are the face of our twenty-first-century workforce. The Next Shift offers unique insights into how we got here and what could happen next.
Work’s Next Chapter
A vivid account of how industrial cities became centers of health care.
Come here for
- A Rust Belt history of steel’s decline and health care’s rise
- The changing fortunes of workers and their families
Expect
- Labor history joined to social and political history
- A clear-eyed look at contemporary service-sector work
Where it sits
| Health Care Policy | 43% |
|---|---|
| Labor & Industrial Relations | 41% |
| Healthcare Industry | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Manufacturing Industry
- 20th-Century America
- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Authors
- Gabriel Winant
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- April 1, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Manufacturing Industry