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The Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant

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The Rise of the Health Care Industry

You write that the modern health care system appears in close parallel to the rise of mass incarceration, like the expansion of the prison system in the final decades of the twentieth century. The rise of the health care industry offered an economic fix to the social crisis brought about by d industrialization,. channelling public expenditure and state power into the management of surplus population. Did those two processes just runing in parallel, or were they more intertwined; what was the difference between the two?

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