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Jacobin RadioDig: Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel WinantFeaturing Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to act like an opposition party; and the resurgent dynamism and energy now coming so powerfully from our political forces on the socialist left. Conducted before a live audience at the Socialism 2025 conference.
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The Dig goes deep into politics everywhe...2025-07-111h 32
The DigNotes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel WinantFeaturing Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to act like an opposition party; and the resurgent dynamism and energy now coming so powerfully from our political forces on the socialist left. Conducted before a live audience at the Socialism 2025 conference.
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2025-07-111h 32Podcast Archives - The DigNotes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel WinantFeaturing Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to act like an opposition party; and the resurgent dynamism and energy now coming so powerfully from our political forces on the socialist left. Conducted before a live audience at the Socialism 2025 conference.
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Haymarket Books LiveHaymarket Presents: Malcolm Harris on What's LeftIn this inaugural event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, best-selling author Malcolm Harris will be joined by activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Harris’s new book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books.Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the tabl...2025-05-021h 27
Tech Won't Save UsHow Masayoshi Son Shaped the Tech Industry w/ Laleh KhaliliParis Marx is joined by Laleh Khalili to discuss Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, the structural factors that allowed him to build an empire, and the many ways he’s shaped the modern tech industry.Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and the author of Sinews of War and Trade and her forthcoming book Extractive Capitalism.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patr...2025-04-2452 min
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Professional-Class Liberals w/ Lily Geismer & Brent CebulBrent Cebul and Lily Geismer, editors of the new collection Mastery and Drift, discuss professional-class liberalism. Plus: a brief reprise of a 2019 interview with Gabriel Winant about the PMC.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html2025-03-2553 min
KPFA - Behind the NewsProfessional class liberalismBrent Cebul and Lily Geismer, editors of Mastery and Drift, on professional class liberalism • a brief reprise of a 2019 interview with Gabriel Winant on the PMC
The post Professional class liberalism appeared first on KPFA.
2025-03-2059 min
Bungacast/475/ Class Power: Professionals, Petits and Proles ft. Dan EvansOn class formation, fragmentation, pessimism and optimism.
George and contributing editor Leigh Phillips talk to Dan Evans, a writer and academic based in South Wales. We discuss his piece in the New Socialist, ‘Is the Working Class Back?’ and themes emerging from it.
How important are definitions of class?
If the working class remains weak and fragmented, and its politics increasingly chaotic, what is to be done?
How does Gabriel Winant's pessimism about the industrial working class compare to Evans'?
What are the class contradictions of the contemporary Left?
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Jacobin RadioDig: Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric BlancFeaturing Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
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Buy All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to...2025-03-131h 40The DigWorkers Organizing Workers w/ Eric BlancFeaturing Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
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Contact Workers Organizing Workers (WOW) if you are interested in taking a job in a strategic industry to unionize it: form.jotform.com/250337473301045
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Subscribe to a year of Jacobin...2025-03-121h 40Podcast Archives - The DigWorkers Organizing Workers w/ Eric BlancFeaturing Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig
Defend federal workers and federal services: actionnetwork.org/forms/let-us-work/
Contact the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) for help organizing your workplace: workerorganizing.org
Contact Workers Organizing Workers (WOW) if you are interested in taking a job in a strategic industry to unionize it: form.jotform.com/250337473301045
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Death PanelTeaser - Death Classic: Islands of Security w/ Gabriel WinantSubscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/death-classic-of-123573664
Hi listeners — Beatrice and Artie are currently on parental leave. (We were planning to be able to telegraph the announcement more this week, but "baby death panel" had other plans, and came early!). While we're away, we'll still have episodes in the feed, like today's episode; a mix of some old favorites we haven't revisited in a while and some unlocks. We’ll be back as soon as it’s safe and reasonable for us to do so, because with everything going on right...2025-03-0505 min
Rough DraftsEpisode 5: Hope and Nihilism in These Trying TimesEpisode 5: Hope and Nihilism (Jan. 20)
L and M ask: what roles do hope and/or nihilism play in shaping political culture. In a meditative discussion held shortly after the US 2024 General Election, they reflect on how social movements and artistic expression hold potential to counter the isolation/alienation/exhaustion of the season ahead.
Tressie Cottom, Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nno64FGj8d0
WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935) https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
Jiirgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Publ...2025-01-2449 min
Arise: A Festival of Left IdeasThe Future of The Left After Trump’s ElectionHow can the Left in the US respond to Trump's victory, why did he win and how can we build the global alliances to challenge his reactionary agenda?An analytical discussion by leading Left US speakers:• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation & Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership• Dan Denvir, host of the socialist podcast The Dig.• Waleed Shahid, former spokesperson for Justice Democrats.• Gabriel Winant, writer about work, inequality, and capitalism in modern America.Facilitated by John...2024-12-121h 24
MacrodoseThe Break Down: Climate Change as Class War w/ Matt HuberIn the wake of the US election, hot takes and autopsies of the Democrats’ fairly spectacular loss are a dime a dozen. Amid the swirl of diagnoses there has also been real fear about what a Trump presidency means for the climate — an issue that felt almost entirely absent from either campaign, despite its significant role in Biden’s policy platform.
How should we understand what just happened? What comes next for climate policy, both in the US and, through its huge influence, in countries around the world. And crucially, in a moment where it feels so politic...2024-11-141h 00
The History Onion2024 Election ReactionWell, the election results are out. Kamala Harris has lost. Donald Trump will return to the White House as the 47th president of the United States. In this episode, we break down the results and give our initial reaction, with a focus on the strategic takeaways for Democrats.Show NotesNYT: Election ResultsData analysis by John Burn-Murdoch at the Financial Times:* What is the point of polling?* Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbentsNYT: * See the Voting Groups That Swung to the Right in th...2024-11-111h 24
The IntellectualWriting in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Writing in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa BorstPub date: 2024-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst discuss The Intellectual Situation, a new anthology of writing from the literary magazine n+1. The anthology brings together writing from the period of 20014-2024, including contributions from people such as Gabriel Winant, Alyssa Battistoni, Tabi Haslet, Nikil Saval, and many others. In this conversation Lisa and Dayna discuss putting the collection tog...2024-10-191h 05
Red MedicineWriting in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa BorstDayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst discuss The Intellectual Situation, a new anthology of writing from the literary magazine n+1. The anthology brings together writing from the period of 20014-2024, including contributions from people such as Gabriel Winant, Alyssa Battistoni, Tabi Haslet, Nikil Saval, and many others. In this conversation Lisa and Dayna discuss putting the collection together, how it feels to read back essays written during different political struggles from the last decade, and how they think about the relationship between writing and organising. EVENT: bit.ly/3ShrqCi
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Day for Night with Caridad SvichS4, Ep 46: Gabriel Winant's The Baby and the Bathwaterin this episode I read Gabriel Winant's "The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialization" published online on October 1, 2024 in Historical Materialism. brill.com/hima
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Reset with Sasha-Ann SimonsThe Midwest Is Shaping The 2024 ElectionWisconsin and Michigan and two pivotal swing states in the presidential election, and organizing across the region is shaping the race in profound ways. Reset checks in with a panel about how political activism and labor organizing, long staples of the Midwest, are coming into play this election cycle. Our guests are Alex Han, executive director of In These Times magazine, Eman Abdelhadi, associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and
Gabriel Winant, associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.2024-08-2315 min
ClassBonus Episode: Fragile Juggernaut: What Was the CIO?Send us a textWe're happy to share a bonus episode with you: the first episode of Haymarket Book’s Originals project, Fragile Juggernaut. Haymarket Originals brings in-depth, series-length audio treatments of a wide range of historical and contemporary political subjects to podcast listeners worldwide. Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the left. The first Haymarket Originals project is Fragile Juggernaut: What Was the CIO? — an important collaboration with labor writers, historians, and organizers.Through a limited run of twenty episodes, they will revisit and reflect on th...2024-08-171h 28
Haymarket Originals: Fragile JuggernautWho Gets the Bird? Communists and the CIOEpisode 11 of Fragile Juggernaut concerns the Communist Party and its complex role in the creation of the CIO. Andrew and Ben trace the strategic zigzags of America’s far-left, recount their pioneering role in organizing drives, and measure the Party’s own accounts of its politics against the often ambiguous, even contradictory realities of its practice. Did Communists merely supply the shock troops for someone else’s political ambitions, or did they put their stamp on the CIO, in ways that were durable and lasting? Did their practice of unionism conform to the mainstream of the labor moveme...2024-08-052h 31
Inform Your ResistanceRerelease: Worker Power in the Fight Against Authoritarianism, a conversation with PowerSwitch Action's Lauren JacobsIn this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism. Lauren and host Koki Mendis explore the allure of reactionary anti-state narratives in explaining worker precarity and how labor organizing can present counter-narratives and options for reducing worker suffering. They also discuss the barriers to unionization posed by corporations, the relationship between worker organizing and the presidential administrations, and the impact of municipal and county governing structures on worker power formation.EPISODE RESOURCES:“Austerity Kills,” a PRA Webinar featuring Saqib Bhatti, Lauren Jaco...2024-08-0139 minInform Your ResistanceRerelease: Worker Power in the Fight Against Authoritarianism, a conversation with PowerSwitch Action's Lauren JacobsIn this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism. Lauren and host Koki Mendis explore the allure of reactionary anti-state narratives in explaining worker precarity and how labor organizing can present counter-narratives and options for reducing worker suffering. They also discuss the barriers to unionization posed by corporations, the relationship between worker organizing and the presidential administrations, and the impact of municipal and county governing structures on worker power formation.EPISODE RESOURCES:“Austerity Kills,” a PRA Webinar featuring Saqib Bhatti, Lauren Jaco...2024-08-0139 min
Know Your EnemyWhat Was the CIO? (w/ Tim Barker and Ben Mabie)Historian Tim Barker and editor/organizer Ben Mabie join to discuss a thrilling episode in the history of American labor. Barker and Mabie are two co-hosts of Fragile Juggernaut, a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, politics, and strategic lessons of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (or CIO). Along with co-hosts Alex Press, Gabriel Winant, Andrew Elrod, and Emma Teitelman, they've been telling the story of organized labor in the 1930s, the radical possibilities of that decade, and the eclipsing of those possibilities in the post-war years — with the onset of the cold war, McCarthyism, and anti-union legislation like Taf...2024-05-271h 21
Human CenteredA Scholar's Commitment to Workers' Economic JusticeLabor historian & 2023-24 CASBS fellow Gabriel Winant in conversation with 2018-19 CASBS fellow Ruth Milkman, among the nation's most renowned sociologists of labor. In addition to interrogating divisions within and segmentation across labor markets in recent decades, Milkman also has remained attuned to the complexity of the overall working class experience, essential for illuminating ways in which workers can unite and organize.RUTH MILKMAN: CUNY faculty page | personal website | ASA bio |Milkman's book Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (2020) | Polity Press Q&A |GABRIEL WINANT: CASBS bio | Univ. of Chicago faculty page | f...2024-04-3050 min
Red MedicineClass Struggle in the Care Economy w/ Taj Ali and Gabriel WinantGabriel Winant and Taj Ali discuss the surge of labor organising that has taken place in British and American healthcare over the last few years.Gabriel Winant is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. His writing has been published in Dissent, n+1, Jacobin, The New York Review of Books.Taj Ali is the co-editor of Tribune Magazine and has been writing about trade unions and workers rights for a number...2024-03-261h 29
Future HistoriesS03E08 - Simon Schaupp zu StoffwechselpolitikWenn wir die ökologische Krise verstehen wollen, müssen wir die Arbeitswelt verstehen, sagt Simon Schaupp und plädiert für eine kämpferische Stoffwechselpolitik.
Shownotes Simon Schaupp
Simon Schaupp an der Universität Basel:
https://soziologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/simon-schaupp/
Schaupp, Simon. 2024. Stoffwechselpolitik Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp Verlag:
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862
Schaupp, Simon. 2021. Technopolitik von unten. Algorithmische Arbeitssteuerung und kybernetische Proletarisierung. Matthes & Seitz Berlin:
https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/technopolitik-von-unten.html
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Socialism ConferenceThe State, Austerity, and the Politics of HealthcarePhilip Rocco, Gabriel Winant, and Salonee Bhaman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.
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The healthcare struggles of the last century have been profoundly shaped by the structures of US federalism: what resources are allocated to states, and what artificial constraints are imposed on them that produce policy in the mold of austerity? Political scientist and Death Panel podcast co-host Philip Rocco is joined by historians Gabriel Winant and Salonee Bhaman to discuss how fiscal decentralization has become an underappreciated force driving the healthcare politics of the United States...2024-01-1359 min
Socialism ConferenceThe State, Austerity, and the Politics of HealthcarePhilip Rocco, Gabriel Winant, and Salonee Bhaman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.
https://www.deathpanel.net
The healthcare struggles of the last century have been profoundly shaped by the structures of US federalism: what resources are allocated to states, and what artificial constraints are imposed on them that produce policy in the mold of austerity? Political scientist and Death Panel podcast co-host Philip Rocco is joined by historians Gabriel Winant and Salonee Bhaman to discuss how fiscal decentralization has become an underappreciated force driving the healthcare politics of the United States...2024-01-1359 min
Apans anatomiJudisk vänsterVänstern har alltid haft en viktig representation av judar bland sina intellektuella. Finns det en judisk vänster i Sverige? Hur bemöts kritik av Israel inom den svenska judiska gemenskapen? Isak Gerson, Hanna Rajs och David Buzaglo är aktiva i judiskt församlingsliv och utifrån deras debattartikel pratar vi om hur det är att vara judisk vänster idag. Vad finns det för inspiration att hämta och vad går att göra idag? Samtalet knyter an till diskussionen om sorg, sörjbarhet, minne, melankoli, trauma och återtraumatisering för den judiska erfarenheten som förs inom tidskrif...2024-01-011h 19
Inform Your ResistanceWorker Power in the Fight Against Authoritarianism, a conversation with PowerSwitch Action's Lauren JacobsIn this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism. Lauren and host Koki Mendis explore the allure of reactionary anti-state narratives in explaining worker precarity and how labor organizing can present counter-narratives and options for reducing worker suffering. They also discuss the barriers to unionization posed by corporations, the relationship between worker organizing and the presidential administrations, and the impact of municipal and county governing structures on worker power formation.EPISODE RESOURCES:“Austerity Kills,” a PRA Webinar featuring Saqib Bhatti, Lauren Jaco...2023-12-1439 minInform Your ResistanceWorker Power in the Fight Against Authoritarianism, a conversation with PowerSwitch Action's Lauren JacobsIn this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism. Lauren and host Koki Mendis explore the allure of reactionary anti-state narratives in explaining worker precarity and how labor organizing can present counter-narratives and options for reducing worker suffering. They also discuss the barriers to unionization posed by corporations, the relationship between worker organizing and the presidential administrations, and the impact of municipal and county governing structures on worker power formation.EPISODE RESOURCES:“Austerity Kills,” a PRA Webinar featuring Saqib Bhatti, Lauren Jaco...2023-12-1439 min
Know Your EnemyYour Questions, AnsweredOnce a year Matt and Sam take questions from listeners—and they always prove to be incredibly smart and interesting. This time around was no different, with questions that include such topics as: the crisis in Israel and Palestine, the influence of postliberal thinkers on the right, polarization and our political future, the state of the GOP, Willie Nelson, conservative art (and artists), and more!Sources:Joshua Leifer, "Toward a Humane Left," Dissent, Oct 12, 2023; read Gabriel Winant's reply, "On Mourning and Statehood," and Leifer's response to Winant herePatrick Deneen, Regime Change: Toward a...2023-10-281h 35
Death PanelDP x S23: The State, Austerity, and the Politics of Healthcare (Final Session)Earlier this month we collaborated with the organizers the Socialism Conference to put together five sessions at this year’s conference on the political economy of health and disability. Each of these sessions is live now for patrons, and we'll be posting one a day in the main feed, all week.
Session Description: The healthcare struggles of the last century have been profoundly shaped by the structures of US federalism: what resources are allocated to states, and what artificial constraints are imposed on them that produce policy in the mold of austerity? Political scientist and Death Panel podcast co-host Philip Ro...2023-09-2158 minPodcast Archives - The DigEmergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & RiofrancosFeaturing Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What are the successes and limits of the new US left electoral strategy? Is there a new anti-electoral mood amongst socialists? Why don't we have a powerful climate movement? What forces are making and remaking the American working class today? The second and final part of a very wide-ranging interview.
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Buy Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900-1910 haymarketbooks.org...2023-08-242h 14The DigEmergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & RiofrancosFeaturing Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What are the successes and limits of the new US left electoral strategy? Is there a new anti-electoral mood amongst socialists? Why don't we have a powerful climate movement? What forces are making and remaking the American working class today? The second and final part of a very wide-ranging interview.
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Jacobin RadioDig: Emergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & RiofrancosFeaturing Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What are the successes and limits of the new US left electoral strategy? Is there a new anti-electoral mood amongst socialists? Why don't we have a powerful climate movement? What forces are making and remaking the American working class today? The second and final part of a very wide-ranging interview.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out our newsletter and vast archives at thedigradio.comBuy Reform, Revolution...2023-08-242h 14Jacobin RadioDig: Conjuncture w/ Akbar, Winant, & RiofrancosFeaturing Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teachers strikes, two Bernie campaigns, the explosive growth of DSA, Standing Rock, and summer 2020 rebellions—just end? What social, political, and economic terrain is emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and how should the left navigate it? The first of a two-part and wide-ranging interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigAll Haymarket books are 40% off! Shop at haymarketbooks.orgBuy After Work by Helen Heste...2023-08-132h 05Podcast Archives - The DigConjuncture w/ Akbar, Winant, & RiofrancosFeaturing Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teachers strikes, two Bernie campaigns, the explosive growth of DSA, Standing Rock, and summer 2020 rebellions—just end? What social, political, and economic terrain is emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and how should the left navigate it? The first of a two-part and wide-ranging interview.
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Buy After Work by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek versobooks.com/products/496-after-work2023-08-132h 05The DigConjuncture w/ Akbar, Winant, & RiofrancosFeaturing Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teachers strikes, two Bernie campaigns, the explosive growth of DSA, Standing Rock, and summer 2020 rebellions—just end? What social, political, and economic terrain is emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and how should the left navigate it? The first of a two-part and wide-ranging interview.
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Death PanelTeaser - J.D. Vance vs the Working Class w/ Gabriel Winant (05/22/23)Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83389515
Bea, Phil, and Abby speak with Gabe Winant about the faux class politics of Republican Senator J.D. Vance, how his 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy pathologizes the poor, and his adherence to the work of inveterate race scientist Charles Murray.
Read Gabe's piece for n+1, "J.D. Vance Changes the Subject" here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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This Is Hell!J. D. Vance Changes the Subject / Gabriel WinantHistorian Gabriel Winant on the N + 1 article, “J. D. Vance Changes the Subject: A senator from the unconscious.” You can find Gabriel's article here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/2023-05-171h 12This Is Hell!J. D. Vance Changes the Subject / Gabriel WinantHistorian Gabriel Winant on the N + 1 article, “J. D. Vance Changes the Subject: A senator from the unconscious.” You can find Gabriel's article here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/2023-05-171h 12ClassEmergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement, Pt 2Send us a textThis episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Panelists include Tristan Bock-Hughes, Olivia Prager, and Gabriel Winant.Tristan is an organizer with the Illinois Nurses Association and formerly one of two staff with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Through EWOC, other staff positions, and volunteer efforts he has worked with dozens of union locals and worker organizations throughout the country. He wants to organize himself out of a job.2023-02-2321 minClassEmergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement, Pt 1Send us a textThis episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Panelists include Elce Redmond, Tristan Bock-Hughes, Gabriel Winant, Teagan Harris, and Olivia Prager.Elce Redmond is a muckraker who has been both a community and union organizer for the past 36 years. For the last two years he has served as a volunteer organizer with EWOC that has built a distributed remote model to support workers organizing in their workplace. Elce is proud to be an...2023-02-0922 min
Trillbilly Worker's PartyEpisode 276: Infirmary Blues (w/ special guest Gabriel Winant)This week we're joined by University of Chicago professor of history, Gabriel Winant, to discuss the social and political origins of the modern healthcare industry in places like Pittsburgh and Appalachia.
To learn more, you can purchase Gabe's book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
And you can always support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty2023-01-261h 24
Varn VlogGabriel Winant on Barbara Ehrenreich and the Changing Nature of ClassPlease support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Gabriel Winant is an 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. We discuss the legacy of Barbara Ehrenreich, the development of her concept of the PMC, uses and abuses of the concept, critiques of its relevance, and the specific ways class relationships changed. We reference the following articles: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292192https://ww...2023-01-051h 51
Death PanelIslands of Security w/ Gabriel Winant (Unlocked)Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor.
This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.
Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
Health Communism is finally...2022-12-081h 22
Socialism ConferenceLearning from Organizing, Putting Knowledge to Work: Linking Analysis and StruggleGabriel Winant, Donna Murch, Mie Inouye, and Dan Denvir speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by n+1 Magazine.
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How do activists learn from struggles, and how do we put our analysis to work in our fights? This panel will feature an open-ended discussion of the relationship between intellectual work and organizing work, drawing on both historical examples and the experiences of participants.
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Socialism ConferenceLearning from Organizing, Putting Knowledge to Work: Linking Analysis and StruggleGabriel Winant, Donna Murch, Mie Inouye, and Dan Denvir speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by n+1 Magazine.
https://www.nplusonemag.com
How do activists learn from struggles, and how do we put our analysis to work in our fights? This panel will feature an open-ended discussion of the relationship between intellectual work and organizing work, drawing on both historical examples and the experiences of participants.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org
Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses...2022-11-2156 minDeath PanelTeaser - Islands of Security w/ Gabriel Winant (10/17/22)Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/73428796
Health Communism is out TOMORROW—this Tuesday, October 18th! If you haven't preordered a copy, please do so here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor.
Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of He...2022-10-1805 min
Researchers' CardboxS01E17: The Ambassadors, STEM, The Next ShiftLet's look at all things from all angles because there are more angles than just the one. It's only in this sense that we move from a 2D paradigm to something more holographic. In that case, STEM should probably have at least a few more letters added to it because we are, at the end of the day, all in this together. So let's be good ambassadors, hope the next shift isn't the one described in The Next Shift, and just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the new name.Further Media:Goldman, Bruce. “St...2022-09-2819 min
Know Your EnemyOn Barbara Ehrenreich (w/ Alex Press & Gabriel Winant)This episode was unplanned, but when Barbara Ehrenreich died on September 1, 2022, we felt an urge to honor her memory and the profound influence she has had on the American left, socialism, feminism, and our collective thinking about class struggle. From her work in the women's health movement of the 1960s, to her theorizing (with ex-husband John Ehrenreich) of the "professional-managerial class" in the 1970s, to her explorations of Reagan-era yuppie pathologies, and her renowned exposé of low-wage work in 2001's Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich has been an essential and nuanced guide to the inner-life of American class conflict in...2022-09-121h 35
The ProgressiveDeindustrialization Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: DeindustrializationPub date: 2022-06-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGabriel Winant talks with Kim about the decline of the industrial working class and the rise of the health care industry.Gabriel is an assistant professor of History at the University of Chicago. His book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, is recently out from Harvard University Press. You can read...2022-06-2117 min
New Books in EconomicsDeindustrializationGabriel Winant talks with Kim about the decline of the industrial working class and the rise of the health care industry.Gabriel is an assistant professor of History at the University of Chicago. His book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, is recently out from Harvard University Press. You can read his recent article on the subject in The New York Times.The Next Shift focuses on the working class in the American context and Pittsburgh in particular. In the full version of our conv...2022-06-1317 min
High TheoryDeindustrializationGabriel Winant talks with Kim about the decline of the industrial working class and the rise of the health care industry.Gabriel is an assistant professor of History at the University of Chicago. His book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, is recently out from Harvard University Press. You can read his recent article on the subject in The New York Times.The Next Shift focuses on the working class in the American context and Pittsburgh in particular. In the full version of our conv...2022-06-1317 min
Know Your EnemyThe Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabriel Winant)Since Donald Trump was elected president — partially on the strength of white working class support in the Rust Belt — we've heard that the GOP is a working class party; that liberals sold out American labor to globalized capital; and that American workers are too socially and culturally conservative to remain within the increasingly progressive Democratic tent. According to the populist right, the culture war is itself a class war, waged on behalf of real workers against a secular, libertine professional elite who control the commanding heights of the economy, government, and media. What's wrong with this story? Labor...2022-04-301h 31
Beatrice Institute PodcastWhat Do Healthcare Systems Owe the Working Class? with Gabe WinantHealthcare workers have been lauded as heroes during the pandemic; but even as nurses and other medical employees have been praised for their service, COVID-19 has exposed many of them to long hours, dangerous working conditions, and lack of resources. Although COVID may have magnified these problems in an unprecedented way, they are hardly new challenges for laborers in the healthcare industry. Is living with these conditions expected of heroes, or are nurses allowed to ask for something better? Does a desire to serve entail vulnerability to exploitation? This coexistence of care and exploitation is a familiar...2022-04-271h 09
Explain It to MeUnions!Dara Lind talks with professor Gabriel Winant of the University of Chicago about the new Bureau of Labor Statistics report that showed a topline decline in union membership despite increasing labor-oriented momentum. And later, journalist Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) joins to talk about the importance of teachers’ unions in the labor movement and in Democratic politics. References:The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, Gabriel Winant Rachel Cohen’s recent article about school closures and Democr...2022-01-2853 min
Jacobin RadioDig: Next Shift with Gabriel WinantHistorian Gabriel Winant discusses The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. It's a fascinating study of the emergence of the service sector and a new working class out of the wreckage of deindustrialization through the story of the rise and fall of unionized steel in Pittsburgh and its replacement by a massive hospital industry.Listen to my past interview with Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral state, social media, religion, and more thedigradio...2022-01-152h 21
A Correction PodcastGabriel Winant on 'Striketober' and 'The Great Resignation'Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism. His work approaches capitalism as an expansive social order—not confined to the market alone but rather structurally composed of multiple, heterogeneous spheres. He focuses on the relationship between economic production and formal employment on the one hand, and the social reproduction and governance of the population on the other. Broadly, he is interested in transformations in the social division of labor and the making and management of social difference through this process....2021-12-2200 min
Jacobin RadioDig: StriketoberGuest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast about Amazon patreon.com/primerpodcastListen to Victor's podcast WAIT, Why Am I Talking? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wait-why-am-i-talking/id1515308564Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig2021-11-041h 26
Red MedicineGabriel Winant: From the Factory to the HospitalGabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift, discusses how deindustrialization made way for an economy built on a foundation of health care, a sector which currently employs more Americans than any other industry.
SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark PilkingtonTwitter: @red_medicine__www.redmedicine.substack.com/2021-10-2658 min
Politics of CinemaFilms of Romero - Martin (1977)This October we're diving into the films of George A. Romero. Sure, he's known as the father of the zombie film, but he also made a fascinating vampire film that came out the same year as Star Wars - Martin (1977). Isaac and Aaron also chat about what they've been watching this Halloween season. Isaac - Titane (2021), Abby (1974), Frenzy (1972), House of Usher (1960) and Viy (1967). Aaron - Haunters: The Art of the Scare, Halloween (1978), Halloween (2007) and Halloween (2018). Book Plug: The Next Shift by Gabriel Winant Follow us at: Patreon / Twitter / Instagram / Letterbo...2021-10-151h 09Tech Won't Save UsBig Tech Entrenches US Power w/ Michael KwetParis Marx is joined by Michael Kwet to discuss how digital technologies are used to entrench the power of the United States and its dominant corporations at the expense of the Global South.Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He got his PhD in Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa. Follow Michael on Twitter at @Michael_Kwet.🚨 T-shirts are now available!Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with...2021-09-0250 min
Laborwave RadioA Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union DeclineGabriel Winant, historian and author of The Next Shift, joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
Our conversation focuses on worker rebellion, the political failure alongside economic gains for organized labor in the postwar era, and the lessons we can learn from the defeat of the New Deal.
He draws attention to the period known as the "great exception," where unions experienced their high-water mark in power and organization, and problematizes some of the common claims about this era. Particularly, Winant shows how the present...2021-08-1045 min
Time To Say GoodbyeSteel, Care, PMCs: historian Gabe WinantHello!A guest episode today: Andy talks with U Chicago historian Gabriel Winant (@gabrielwinant) about his new book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. We discuss capitalism and neoliberalism, what’s going on with the U.S. socialist movement, and class fissures within the professional ranks. Check out Gabe’s other writing in many places, including Dissent, n+1, The Nation, and Jacobin! 0:00 – Pittsburgh, discussions of class, Gabe’s journey, Marxism, and the rumored “history of capitalism” trend in the academy.20:00 – We dig into The N...2021-07-131h 34
Reviving Growth KeynesianismDavid Stein on *Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears*This week we talked to David Stein about his dissertation, "Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears" and the centrality of full employment to the black freedom struggle. From the 1930s through the 1970s, the fight for a job went hand in hand with the fight for freedom and equality. The proposal for a Job Guarantee, it turns out, has multiple origins - one was in the fight against Jim Crow monetary policy. Cold War complications ultimately undid the movement for a time, but its coming back today. *** LINKS ***Follow David on Twitter @DavidpSteinRead David's wo...2021-06-281h 22
Get Lost In This Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel WinantPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519182to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Author: Gabriel Winant
Narrator: Bj Harrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Release date: June 22, 2021
Genres: HR & Admin
Publisher's Summary:
Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us...2021-06-221h 32Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThe Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel WinantPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519182to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Author: Gabriel Winant
Narrator: Bj Harrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Release date: June 22, 2021
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us...2021-06-221h 32
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThe Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel WinantPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America Author: Gabriel Winant Narrator: Bj Harrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant ta...2021-06-2210 min
Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism PodcastGabriel Winant on the Rusting of 'Steel City, USA' and the Rise of HealthcareToday, healthcare workers account for the largest percentage of U.S. workers. Yet, their power pales in comparison to the unionized industrial workforce that preceded them, and whom it is their job now to care for. In this episode, Gabriel Winant explains how these two worlds--the post-war industrial economy and the post-industrial service economy--came together in 'Steel City, USA,' where during the late twentieth century the healthcare economy emerged to take advantage of the social hierarchies engendered by the American welfare state.2021-06-0352 min
On the MediaThe Ghosts of the Rust BeltThe old US Steel building in Pittsburgh, PA is a black monolith, symbol and fortress of industrial power, soaring above the confluence of three mighty rivers. But its vista has changed. Gone is the golden, sulfurous haze. Gone are the belching smokestacks, blazing furnaces and slag-lined river valleys snaking along Appalachian foothills. The industry that sustained a region, girded the world’s infrastructure and underwrote a now-vanished way of life has long since crossed oceans. Steel City is now Healthcare City, representing almost 1 in 4 jobs in the region. Some 92,000 of them work for just one employer, the sprawling, omnivorous Uni...2021-05-1450 min
Your Rights At WorkDeath on the Job: The Toll of NeglectBroadcast on May 6, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: The AFL-CIO’s 30th annual Death On The Job report…DC Labor Chorus’ annual spring concert preview…Nikko Bilitza from DC Jobs with Justice reports on the Essential Workers Bill of Rights…and Gabriel Winant discusses his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.
PLUS: We Did Not Come This Far, by the DC Labor Chorus.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #lab...2021-05-0755 min
The AntifadaEp 142 - The Healthcare Monster w/ Gabriel WinantSean 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...2021-05-051h 21
Reinventing SolidarityEpisode 15 - "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry & the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America"New Labor Forum Books and Arts Editor Samir Sonti hosts a conversation with Gabriel Winant, author of the recent book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. Examining the vast expansion of the health care sector of our economy over the past half-century, Winant traces its development to a combination of factors, including deindustrialization, union decline, an aging population, and a shredded social safety net. It is this historical process, Winant argues, that ushered in a burgeoning low-wage health care workforce disproportionately represented by women and people of color , who...2021-05-0329 min
Innovation HubAn Invisible Future for American JobsOver the last several decades, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have withered. Meanwhile, health care has become the fastest growing job sector in the country, and it’s been on top for years. According to Gabriel Winant, a historian at the University of Chicago, and author of “The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America,” not only are those two opposing trends related, but there are also some serious consequences to the connection.2021-04-3034 minJacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Mike Goldfield & Gabriel WinantMike Goldfield, whose recent book is The Southern Key, discusses the unionization drive underway at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer Alabama. Mike’s book analyzed the history of efforts to unionize the South in the 1930s and 40s, and that history is the context for the struggle to unionize Amazon today, in the same area as the fight that failed in the 1940s. The current unionization drive is widely recognized as pivotally important, and is being extensively covered. A new Brookings Institution report says Amazon’s union battle in Bessemer is about dignity, racial justice, and the future of the Ameri...2021-03-261h 01
New Books in MedicineGabriel Winant, "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" (Harvard UP, 2021)In his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press, 2021), Gabriel Winant explains how the social reproductive labor sustaining the US's industrial economy was institutionalized in response to steelworker layoffs, aging, and sickness beginning in the 1960s. The result was a recomposition of the American working class, from a predominantly white male industrial one, to a meagerly paid and socially devalued pool of care workers comprised mostly of women, and especially women of color. Neoliberalism's insecure labor regime is not a reversion to an earlier period of in...2021-03-081h 26
New Books in EconomicsGabriel Winant, "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" (Harvard UP, 2021)In his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press, 2021), Gabriel Winant explains how the social reproductive labor sustaining the US's industrial economy was institutionalized in response to steelworker layoffs, aging, and sickness beginning in the 1960s. The result was a recomposition of the American working class, from a predominantly white male industrial one, to a meagerly paid and socially devalued pool of care workers comprised mostly of women, and especially women of color. Neoliberalism's insecure labor regime is not a reversion to an earlier period of in...2021-03-081h 26
The Harvard BriefGabriel Winant, "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" (Harvard UP, 2021)In his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press, 2021), Gabriel Winant explains how the social reproductive labor sustaining the US's industrial economy was institutionalized in response to steelworker layoffs, aging, and sickness beginning in the 1960s. The result was a recomposition of the American working class, from a predominantly white male industrial one, to a meagerly paid and socially devalued pool of care workers comprised mostly of women, and especially women of color. Neoliberalism's insecure labor regime is not a reversion to an earlier period of in...2021-03-081h 26
Over The Wire PodcastGabriel Winant Podcast: Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Gabriel WinantPub date: 2021-02-23Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Focussing on how blue-collar manufacturing jobs in Pittsburgh were eventually replaced by female-dominated, yet lower-paid and less stable, positions in healthcare services. The conversation also touches on what this story says about the working class and the future of work.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this week’s episode we talk to Gabriel Winan...2021-03-061h 04
Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory PodcastGabriel WinantOn this week’s episode we talk to Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago, about his forthcoming book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. In it, he focuses on the political economy of Pittsburgh since World War II—specifically, how blue-collar manufacturing jobs were eventually replaced by female-dominated, yet lower-paid and less stable, positions in healthcare services. In this conversation, we mostly just try to understand his deep and informative argument. We also speculate about the future of work and discuss what...2021-02-231h 04Innovation HubThe Invisible Future of American JobsOver the last several decades, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have withered. Meanwhile, health care has become the fastest growing job sector in the country, and it’s been on top for years. According to Gabriel Winant, a historian at the University of Chicago, and author of “The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America,” not only are those two opposing trends related, but there are also some serious consequences to the connection.2021-01-2235 min
Know Your EnemyDid It Happen Here?Matt and Sam take up the question that's dominating The Discourse: Is Donald Trump—and the movement he leads—fascist? To provide an answer, they turn to the rich historiography of fascism and some key essays on the subject published since Trump's election. Along the way, they break down different approaches and sets of criteria for evaluating fascism, consider the similarities—and differences—between the 1920s and '30s and today, and ponder whether or not the "fascist question" is the right one to be asking. Listen to the end to find out where Matt and Sam finally land!Fur...2021-01-171h 44
Know Your EnemyHow to Be DepressedWe released this bonus episode on depression and politics in July, and it quickly became a favorite of our Patreon subscribers. A number of them asked us to make it available in front of the paywall so they could share it with friends and family who have experienced depression and other mental-health issues—so that's what we decided to do. Topics discussed include: Matt's review of George Scialabba's memoir about depression; how left and right understand moral desert; and the struggle to build a society based on human frailty, our vulnerability to bad luck and bad breaks, and how mu...2020-10-121h 07
Left AnchorEpisode 155 - Socialism vs. Antitrust with Marshall SteinbaumToday we've got Marshall Steinbaum from the University of Utah to discuss whether socialism and antitrust (or antimonopoly) inherently trade off, or can complement each other. The Gabriel Winant review of Goliath we discuss can be found here. Enjoy!
PS: Unfortunately we had some more technical glitches during recording. Apologies, but everything should be reasonably comprehensible.
2020-09-121h 17
Soulful MBA Podcast79 Wellness“Like workout culture, wellness is a form of conspicuous consumption. It is only the wealthy who have the resources to maintain the illusion of an integral and bounded self, capable of responsible self-care and thus worthy of social status. The same logic says that those who smoke (read: poor), or don’t eat right (poor again), or don’t exercise enough (also poor) have personally failed and somehow deserve their health problems and low life expectancy.” - Gabriel Winant We explore some controversial themes in this episode as we question the fundamental societal shifts that have caused “wellness”...2018-06-1429 minSoulful MBA Podcast79 Wellness“Like workout culture, wellness is a form of conspicuous consumption. It is only the wealthy who have the resources to maintain the illusion of an integral and bounded self, capable of responsible self-care and thus worthy of social status. The same logic says that those who smoke (read: poor), or don’t eat right (poor again), or don’t exercise enough (also poor) have personally failed and somehow deserve their health problems and low life expectancy.” - Gabriel Winant We explore some controversial themes in this episode as we question the fundamental societal shifts that have caused “wellness”...2018-06-1429 min