The Next Shift – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:15:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png The Next Shift – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 From Steel to Health Care to Broke https://lpeproject.org/blog/from-steel-to-health-care-to-broke/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6669 This post concludes a symposium on Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Gabriel Winant’s brilliant book The Next Shift set out to answer this question: “How did steel city become a city of nursing assistants?” Along the way, Winant’s treatment of race, gender, and labor in the health care industry also helps answer a second one: Why is a city of nursing assistants...

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]]> Servicing Social Citizenship in a Divided Welfare State https://lpeproject.org/blog/servicing-social-citizenship-in-a-divided-welfare-state/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6640 This post continues a symposium on Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift. Read the rest of the posts here. *** At the core of Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift is a mid-twentieth-century vision of social citizenship: a bundle of entitlements that, together, signaled the holder’s value to society. The bundle included unemployment insurance, job security guarantees, retirement benefits...

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]]> The Making of a Caregiving Crisis https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-making-of-a-caregiving-crisis/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6618 This post continues a symposium on Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift. Read the rest of the posts here. *** The past two years have made painfully clear the problems with undervaluing care work. As COVID-19 has torn through nursing homes—one in ten people living in a nursing home has now died of COVID—it has also exacerbated labor problems caused by decades of neglect. Daily news stories describe...

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]]> Labor Law and Employer Domination: From Steel to Care https://lpeproject.org/blog/labor-law-and-employer-domination-from-steel-to-care/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6616 This post, part of a symposium on Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift, draws from the author’s forthcoming review in the Yale Law Journal. *** In one of the more well-known and arresting vignettes in Capital Volume 1, Marx invites his reader to “take leave for a time of this noisy sphere” of the market he has been describing—where commodities are exchanged and labor contracts entered—and to follow...

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]]> The Making of a New Working Class https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-making-of-a-new-working-class/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6481 This post introduces a symposium on The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. Read the entire series here. *** When the Supreme Court constitutionalized collective bargaining in the 1937 Jones & Laughlin ruling, it described steel production around Pittsburgh as “the heart of a self-contained, highly integrated body” stretching from the West Virginia...

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