The Next Shift

The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

Gabriel Winant

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674238091

Publication Date: 03/23/2021

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

8 photos, 4 illus., 6 maps, 12 tables

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Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His writing about work, inequality, and capitalism in modern America has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Dissent, and n+1.

Awards & Accolades

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2021

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