I think that the working class gets recycled in a way that it affects how they do their daily life and there routine of getting ready for the day. It also has a more meaningful impact on the African American community, and how some people or family members would get laid off from their job or their business that they work for is shut down. So there is a way that the working class has that term of recycling, and how it can be used in a way that turns it into a service-based economy. It also affects how the time is changing as more women and men in different communities enter the work forces and have a chance of doing more in their lives. Like stay home wives or mothers now have a chance of going to work outside of their homes.
The article states that ‘In 1979-the year the Fed tightened the money supply for the general investment in Pittsburgh hospital tripled to $230 million. ( Winant, the enduring disaster, pg 30) So this fact about the health care system in that time has changed so much in today’s world, and its money has increased in ways that can be helpful for the adults and children with severe health issues Futhermore here is another good quotes from the article “ When the state Health Department approved a $127 million project thirteen story building at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital in 1981”( Winant pg 31).
This was also a cool fact that I learned from this article, and how it probably made a big impact on those children who are from the working-class community. It will also bring new jobs in that field of nursing and doctors that just graduated with a degree of sorts in that field. I would say that the working class is experiencing and wrenching transition from a known industrial environment into what we know today as a service-based economy. It also showed us what it was like back in the 1970s-1980s of a working class and who had a job at some point in their life, then it would be shut down or you get laid off by the company.
Furthermore, there is another quote that surprised me on this topic of the health care system back then: “ From 1979 to 1982, community-wide hospital utilization and service intensity increased sharply.”(Winant pg 31) the way that the hospital dueingthis time has increased in way that’s show use a reason to thjink about the recyled transition from a hospital that would be in a industrial to service based building that helps people that require help or are concerned about there health that they don’t understand. I also think that this was a good article to read and how it can look at the difference between what the recycled industrial to service-based means in today’s world and how it benefits the way we view things on certain topics. that are still issues in today world were family that don’t hav eenought money to go to hospital should still have right to go to one in need of help.
Throughout your post, I found it interesting that you tended to talk about the positive side of deindustrialization rather than the negative side with a focus on healthcare, but it was still interesting to see what you thought of the growth of healthcare in such a changing economic and social environment. Although you didn’t talk about it much, I like how you thought about how the children of those industrial workers would have felt, as they would have also gone through hardship and confusing rhetoric from the society / community around them as things changed. At the end of your post, you mention how, even with that increase in medical attendants (doctors and nurses), the healthcare system is still far outside some communities’ realm of possibility due to poverty.
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