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The Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant

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How to Get a Job in a Steel Mill

CNN's John Sutter looks at the life of a working class steel worker family. He says it can be hard to keep up with schedules that run 24 hours a day, three eight hour shifts. The wife has to help her husband get clean and make dinner for their four or five kids when he gets home from his workday. This is an emotional job in a kind of day-to-day way, writes Sutter. And i think we can see this super clearly in amazing moment a in 59, when nixon went to moscow for a debate about krusteau ryegrass - you know, american rust belt vs.  moscow Rust Belt

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