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(Mario Tama / Getty) A dozen years ago, I visited the Chicago offices of the National Nurses Organizing Committee on the city’s West Side. Visible through a large window was a gigantic parking garage, an annex to one of the equally huge hospitals clustered within a dozen blocks. Cook County, Mount Sinai, and three other medical complexes employed tens of thousands of workers. Among those seeking to organize them was an African American NNOC staffer. Books in Review The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America By Gabriel Winant She told me she was the daughter of an autoworker in Flint, Mich., who’d been a militant in his union during the heyday of the battles waged between the United Auto Workers and General Motors. In Flint, she became a radical activist, inspired by the power of the UAW and the moral energy of the civil rights movement, and in time made a career as a union organizer of nurses and other health ....
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Manufacturing Isnât Coming Back. Letâs Improve These Jobs Instead. Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions. By Gabriel Winant Dr. Winant is the author of âThe Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.â March 17, 2021 Credit.Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images In Congress and the White House, policymakers are developing a bill that is expected to pour trillions into updating American transit, energy and utility systems. Repairs are certainly necessary, and itâs impossible to overstate the urgency of such a program in terms of the transition to a more sustainable economy. ....
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution by David Paul Kuhn Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson Liveright, 2020, 288 pp. When a young Chuck Schumer arrived at Harvard in 1967 as a freshman, he joined the great political stirring of those yearsâwho could resist it? But Abbie Hoffman he was not. âI was faced with what Alexander Hamilton called mobocracy,â Schumer recalled in his coauthored 2007 book Positively American. He became a College Democrat, canvassed for Eugene McCarthy, and eschewed the radicals. Campus members of the New Leftâs Progressive Labor faction horrified him, and he felt âsickenedâ seeing protesters scream at cops. âThe police werenât pigs. They were the people Iâd grown up with. They were my neighbors. My friends. They were the Baileys [imaginary Irish-American Long ....