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Gabriel Winant

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The Making of the Springfield Working Class

Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.

by Gabriel Winant via New York Review of Books on September 30, 2024
We Can Breathe! Anti-Fascists United

What was the Popular Front? Where did it come from, and where did its energies go?

by Gabriel Winant via London Review of Books on August 1, 2024
Eight and Skate

The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.

by Gabriel Winant via New York Review of Books on September 23, 2023
The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.

by Gabriel Winant, Nick Serpe via Dissent on March 18, 2021
Backlash Forever

It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left.

by Gabriel Winant via Dissent on February 1, 2021
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

by Gabriel Winant via The Nation on January 21, 2020
Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

by Gabriel Winant via The New Republic on December 4, 2019
Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.

by Gabriel Winant via The Nation on February 7, 2018
The New Working Class

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

by Gabriel Winant via Dissent on June 27, 2017

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A worker entering the U.S. Steel Clairton Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania.

A Rust Belt City’s New Working Class

Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.

by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on March 31, 2021

“A Place to Die”: Law and Political Economy in the 1970s

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.

by Karen Tani via LPE Project on October 18, 2018

Lithograph of Monongahela River bridge

The Girders of Steel City's History

Pittsburgh as a symbol of America itself.

by Ed Simon via HNN on July 11, 2021

class politics graphic of voters facing off

The Politics of a Second Gilded Age

Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.

by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 17, 2021

What’s Left of Generation X

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on October 8, 2019

A New Struggle Coming

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on March 5, 2018

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