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Gabriel Winant
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Gabriel Winant is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is completing a book on deindustrialization and care work.
Competing theories… A serious misconception (web only )…
In Goliath , Matt Stoller argues that US history has been defined by a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but to understand inequality today requires engaging with questions of class and labor that he and other anti-monopolists tend to ignore.
Andrea Komlosy’s new history traces our evolving notions of work and how what we do is ultimately also about what we owe one another.
Or will it inspire the kind of militant unionism that could still resurrect the labor movement?
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February 7, 2018
Unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.
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