Join n+1 contributor Gabriel Winant for a conversation about his new book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, and the development of the care industry in Pennsylvania. He’ll be in conversation with Pennsylvania State Senator (and former n+1 editor) Nikil Saval, State Representative Summer Lee, and Lisa Frank, Vice President of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania.
The event is co-hosted by SEIU Healthcare, and is free and open to the public.
7 PM EST
Thursday, April 29
RSVP on Zoom
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 researched, and sharply argued, The Next Shift offers a new way to think about the transformations often grouped together under the rubric of ‘neoliberalism.’ Winant sees deindustrialization not simply as a story of decline, but a story of the rise of a new kind of working class.” —Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
“A sophisticated, politically pointed, and beautiful crafted book, The Next Shift chronicles both the erosion of the white male industrial working class and the ascendance of a service sector run by the labor of white women and men and women of color. But unlike most stories of industrial decline, Winant’s history bristles with hope for activism for the new world of work that has emerged.” —Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019