Ep 142 - The Healthcare Monster w/ Gabriel Winant
Added 2021-05-05 10:00:00 +0000 UTCSean and Jamie are joined by Gabe Winant (@gabrielwinant), historian and author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," to discuss the composition of the US working class yesterday and today.
Gabe's excellent historical work has given us a picture of the remarkable changes seen in Pittsburgh, once an emblematic blue collar town and one now dominated by hospitals and pink collar work. But, as we see in the interview, Pittsburgh is merely a microcosm of an epochal shift from one regime of accumulation to another; from the post-war "Golden Age," to the (decaying) neoliberal order of today. Together we pick apart the contradictions within both as we look at real examples of class struggle (alongside the grand dialectic of capital) and wonder what the future might look like for the American working class as a whole.
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Outro - Wiz Khalifa: Black and Yellow (Vaporwave)
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Comments
Yo steel is yellow because when it’s hot it burns so bright.
Gabo Goff
2021-05-08 14:10:24 +0000 UTCGreat note about people in the US being angry about everything, but not really knowing why. In general, people need help in understanding where to direct that justified anger; a significant problem which keeps standing in the way tho is the charlatans and co-opters who use their money, influence, and connections to take advantage of that anger and aim it towards the wrong targets (marginalized groups, foreigners, communists, etc)--not only keeping that energy from being used against the true culprits, but wasting it against the people you should be aligning with in these struggles in the first place. Gotta find a way to break through with the right message to more people, so enough of us can our focus on the correct targets together, and have a shot at bringing about the sort of seismic, systemic changes we need
Packercraze
2021-05-05 22:50:32 +0000 UTC
