Gabriel Winant
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 689746 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gabriel Winant |
| PRENOMES | Gabriel |
| SOBRENOME | Winant |
| ASSINATURA | WINANT G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7454-1825 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Response to “Re-Enchanting American History”
Exit Right
The most important image of the 2024 election, to my eye, was generated one evening of the Democratic National Convention, when delegates had to file past protesters chanting the names and ages of dead Palestinian children. The attendees did not simply ignore the demonstration, as one might have expected; rather, they exaggeratedly plugged their ears, made mocking faces, and, in one notable case, sarcastically mimicked the chant: “Eighteen years …
Labor Power and Strategy
In a recent Supreme Court case, Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174, a concrete company won a claim against its union for material costs caused by a strike. Prior to walking out, workers had left wet concrete in some mixing trucks. When it hardened, the concrete was ruined; the trucks themselves were preserved from damage only by swift company action. Fruitlessly, the union argued that this was the exercise of wo…
The Baby and the Bathwater
This paper is an edited version of the Deutscher Memorial Lecture delivered in November 2023 which expands upon The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America . It develops an account of the productivity limits of interpersonal service work more firmly rooted in Marxism and argues that the separation of social reproduction from production is primarily economic rather than political. This theoretical device i…
Longing and Hope and Sadness and Anger”
This article reconstructs the historical context in which “agency” emerged as the key concept of social history, arguing that an unstated concept of the liberal individual was smuggled into historical explanation through a humanist anthropology underlying the social history renaissance. It then asks what would be involved in salvaging social–historical explanation, including its interest in historical possibilities for social solidarity and the p…
Illusions of Progress
The Costume of My Trade
Despite a number of excellent queer labor histories, the historiography of lesbian, gay, and trans people and the historiography of work and workers have remained relatively uninfluenced by each other. This is puzzling in some obvious ways: the Mattachine Society was founded by a communist, and class questions were right there at the origin of the field of queer history with John D'Emilio, Leslie Feinberg, Joanne Meyerowitz, and George Chauncey. …
Labor in the Age of Finance
After the 2008 financial crisis, advocates of regulation often observed that banking needed to be made boring again. The footprint of finance in American and world society, it was widely realized, had expanded dramatically, relying on exotic innovations and yielding incredible profits. With disastrous effects, bankers now appeared as swashbuckling adventurers rather than the gray, dull figures they once had been.Organized labor was caught up in t…
Health and Efficiency
Journal Article Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney Get access Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney University of Massachusetts Press, Massachusetts, 2022. 248pp. ISBN 9781625346506, $28.95. Gabriel Winant Gabriel Winant University of Chicago Department of History, USA [email protected] Sear…
Injury Impoverished
A generation ago, labor historians experienced something of an intellectual deadlock in the conjuncture composed of the crisis of Marxism, the eclipse of workers’ movements and workers’ states, the rise of poststructuralism, and the related challenge to the analytical centrality of class. In many respects, those on opposed sides of these polemics went their separate ways in an event then described as the “problem of synthesis.” Some rejected the …
Deindustrialisation and the Origins of the Care Economy
The Next Shift
Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future? 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 Winan…
Next Shift
Health Care in the Steel City
Everybody knows that service jobs have replaced industrial jobs and that a huge part of those service jobs, about 20 million, are in health care—in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and home care. But the interrelated process through which that happened and the consequences for labor markets are rarely as palpable as they are in Gabriel Winant's new book on Pittsburgh, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt…
Deindustrialization, Working-Class Decline, and the Growth of Health Care
The Natural Profits of Their Years of Labor
This article uses the politics of old age to help explain the moral conservatism of the American welfare state. It argues that the onset of Fordism caused both uneven economic displacement of old workers and broader anxiety among social reformers about dependency and the forms of social disorder it produced by disturbing normative families. The management of this disturbance became a key promise of the movement for old-age pensions in the 1920s, …
Anomalies and Continuities
The idea of a “new gilded age” depends on a model of history in which the tension between inequality and solidarity takes the form of a binary oscillation (often resting on a positivist social scientific form of reasoning), in turn creating the appearance of basic similarity between separate unequal periods. Under this view, however, it is difficult to make sense of the fundamentally different origins of inequality prevailing in 1890 and 2010. In…
The Correspondent
Repetition or Renewal
Inner Dialogue
Sarah Gordon, a young communist in New York in the 1930s, hated selling the Daily Worker on the street – the task that the party assigned to her. ‘But I did it, I did it’, she recalled. Her friends outside the party, uncomprehending, would ask her why. ‘They say to us, “The Communist Party held a whip over you”. But they did not understand. If I didn’t do it, I couldn’t face my comrades the next day. And we all did it for the same reason: we were…
The Making of Nickel and Dimed
This article examines the career of journalist and critic Barbara Ehrenreich. Born to a mining family, Ehrenreich’s experience of upward mobility formed the biographical context for her critique of professional ideology—a critique at the heart of her entire career. Her diagnosis of the New Left’s failure and the New Right’s triumph emerged from her analysis of the “professional-managerial class.” Her journalism amounted to an effort to translate …
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
International audience
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
A Place to Die
When Emily Eckel arrived at John J. Kane Hospital for her first day of work in 1975, what struck her immediately was the apparatus of bodily constraint. “When I started, I didn't know what a geri-chair was. The first time I walked in and saw them lining the halls, I was shocked.” Kane was a huge public long-term care facility for the elderly and disabled, owned and operated by Allegheny County, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Geri-chairs were seats…
Conflict and Consensus
This article places the 1959 steel strike—the largest work stoppage in US history—within the trajectory of the New Deal order. We provide a multiscalar account of the strike that stretches from the mills and corporate boardrooms, to Congress and the Oval Office, and back to the homes of steelworkers themselves. The strike crystallized the limits of postwar collective bargaining and Keynesian policy making to manage postwar economic growth. Those …
The Baby and the Bathwater
This paper is an edited version of the Deutscher Memorial Lecture delivered in November 2023 which expands upon The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America . It develops an account of the productivity limits of interpersonal service work more firmly rooted in Marxism and argues that the separation of social reproduction from production is primarily economic rather than political. This theoretical device i…
A Place to Die
When Emily Eckel arrived at John J. Kane Hospital for her first day of work in 1975, what struck her immediately was the apparatus of bodily constraint. “When I started, I didn't know what a geri-chair was. The first time I walked in and saw them lining the halls, I was shocked.” Kane was a huge public long-term care facility for the elderly and disabled, owned and operated by Allegheny County, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Geri-chairs were seats…
Dirty Jobs, Done Dirt Cheap
Green Pastures of Plenty from Dry Desert Ground”
This article examines the growth and change of a southern California table grape firm, the George F. Johnston Company. Combining business, labor, and environmental history, it traces the company’s expansion from a semi-arid region just east of Los Angeles to the fully arid deserts of the Coachella and Imperial Valleys of California. The Johnston Company moved south and east into this more hostile environment to produce grapes out of the tradition…
Introduction
This article introduces the present Special Theme on the global reception and appropriation of E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963). It aims to interrogate Thompson’s legacy and potential vitality at a moment of renewed social and intellectual upheavals. It emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary and global reflection on Thompson’s work and impact for understanding how class, nation, and “the people” as subjects of …
Conflict and Consensus
This article places the 1959 steel strike—the largest work stoppage in US history—within the trajectory of the New Deal order. We provide a multiscalar account of the strike that stretches from the mills and corporate boardrooms, to Congress and the Oval Office, and back to the homes of steelworkers themselves. The strike crystallized the limits of postwar collective bargaining and Keynesian policy making to manage postwar economic growth. Those …
The Making of Nickel and Dimed
This article examines the career of journalist and critic Barbara Ehrenreich. Born to a mining family, Ehrenreich’s experience of upward mobility formed the biographical context for her critique of professional ideology—a critique at the heart of her entire career. Her diagnosis of the New Left’s failure and the New Right’s triumph emerged from her analysis of the “professional-managerial class.” Her journalism amounted to an effort to translate …
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
International audience
An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture
A Place to Die
When Emily Eckel arrived at John J. Kane Hospital for her first day of work in 1975, what struck her immediately was the apparatus of bodily constraint. “When I started, I didn't know what a geri-chair was. The first time I walked in and saw them lining the halls, I was shocked.” Kane was a huge public long-term care facility for the elderly and disabled, owned and operated by Allegheny County, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Geri-chairs were seats…
Repetition or Renewal
Inner Dialogue
Sarah Gordon, a young communist in New York in the 1930s, hated selling the Daily Worker on the street – the task that the party assigned to her. ‘But I did it, I did it’, she recalled. Her friends outside the party, uncomprehending, would ask her why. ‘They say to us, “The Communist Party held a whip over you”. But they did not understand. If I didn’t do it, I couldn’t face my comrades the next day. And we all did it for the same reason: we were…
Anomalies and Continuities
The idea of a “new gilded age” depends on a model of history in which the tension between inequality and solidarity takes the form of a binary oscillation (often resting on a positivist social scientific form of reasoning), in turn creating the appearance of basic similarity between separate unequal periods. Under this view, however, it is difficult to make sense of the fundamentally different origins of inequality prevailing in 1890 and 2010. In…
The Correspondent
The Next Shift
Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future? 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 Winan…
Next Shift
Health Care in the Steel City
Everybody knows that service jobs have replaced industrial jobs and that a huge part of those service jobs, about 20 million, are in health care—in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and home care. But the interrelated process through which that happened and the consequences for labor markets are rarely as palpable as they are in Gabriel Winant's new book on Pittsburgh, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt…
Deindustrialization, Working-Class Decline, and the Growth of Health Care
The Natural Profits of Their Years of Labor
This article uses the politics of old age to help explain the moral conservatism of the American welfare state. It argues that the onset of Fordism caused both uneven economic displacement of old workers and broader anxiety among social reformers about dependency and the forms of social disorder it produced by disturbing normative families. The management of this disturbance became a key promise of the movement for old-age pensions in the 1920s, …
Injury Impoverished
A generation ago, labor historians experienced something of an intellectual deadlock in the conjuncture composed of the crisis of Marxism, the eclipse of workers’ movements and workers’ states, the rise of poststructuralism, and the related challenge to the analytical centrality of class. In many respects, those on opposed sides of these polemics went their separate ways in an event then described as the “problem of synthesis.” Some rejected the …
Deindustrialisation and the Origins of the Care Economy
The Costume of My Trade
Despite a number of excellent queer labor histories, the historiography of lesbian, gay, and trans people and the historiography of work and workers have remained relatively uninfluenced by each other. This is puzzling in some obvious ways: the Mattachine Society was founded by a communist, and class questions were right there at the origin of the field of queer history with John D'Emilio, Leslie Feinberg, Joanne Meyerowitz, and George Chauncey. …
Labor in the Age of Finance
After the 2008 financial crisis, advocates of regulation often observed that banking needed to be made boring again. The footprint of finance in American and world society, it was widely realized, had expanded dramatically, relying on exotic innovations and yielding incredible profits. With disastrous effects, bankers now appeared as swashbuckling adventurers rather than the gray, dull figures they once had been.Organized labor was caught up in t…
Health and Efficiency
Journal Article Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney Get access Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney University of Massachusetts Press, Massachusetts, 2022. 248pp. ISBN 9781625346506, $28.95. Gabriel Winant Gabriel Winant University of Chicago Department of History, USA [email protected] Sear…
Labor Power and Strategy
In a recent Supreme Court case, Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174, a concrete company won a claim against its union for material costs caused by a strike. Prior to walking out, workers had left wet concrete in some mixing trucks. When it hardened, the concrete was ruined; the trucks themselves were preserved from damage only by swift company action. Fruitlessly, the union argued that this was the exercise of wo…
The Baby and the Bathwater
This paper is an edited version of the Deutscher Memorial Lecture delivered in November 2023 which expands upon The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America . It develops an account of the productivity limits of interpersonal service work more firmly rooted in Marxism and argues that the separation of social reproduction from production is primarily economic rather than political. This theoretical device i…
Longing and Hope and Sadness and Anger”
This article reconstructs the historical context in which “agency” emerged as the key concept of social history, arguing that an unstated concept of the liberal individual was smuggled into historical explanation through a humanist anthropology underlying the social history renaissance. It then asks what would be involved in salvaging social–historical explanation, including its interest in historical possibilities for social solidarity and the p…
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