Labor Author Gabriel Winant to Join Maine AFL-CIO Labor Reading Group

Labor author Gabriel Winant will join the Maine AFL-CIO Labor Reading Group for a discussion of his book “The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" on Thursday, May 26, from from 5:30 to 7pm on Zoom.  Winant is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and studies the social and economic structures that create income and wealth inequality. 

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The reading group is finishing up reading Winant’s first book, "The Next Shift," which investigates the rise of the service economy following the decline of manufacturing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It discusses how the health care sector came to dominate the economy in many parts of the Rust Belt and how care workers, who are overwhelmingly women and people of color, might translate the increasing recognition of their economic value into political power.