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The Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant

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The New Deal Order and the Industrial Revolution - What Happened?

Iqote: Over the post war decades, employment in manufacturing underwent a long secular decline. And across the entire dindustrializing world, a wave of welfare state expansion followed as governments responded to these demands and sought to manage the appearance of new forms of poverty amid the post war. In 19 forty nine, the court system rules that in a couple of steel industry cases, that so called fringe benefits, health care and retirement in particular, are so called mandatory subjects of collective bargaining. A and the steel workers negotiate the first health plan that year, forty nine. But how did this mass expansion of the private health care system, secured through collective bargaining, fit into the broader government response to the

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