“From Factory Town to Hospital Town: Labor and Democracy in the Rustbelt” with Gabriel Winant & Matt Jacobson

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 7:00pm
Event description: 

Public Humanities at Yale and the New Haven Free Public Library invite you to join us for the next webinar in our Democracy in America series. 

 

From Factory Town to Hospital Town: Labor and Democracy in the Rustbelt

Featuring Gabriel Winant (University of Chicago) in conversation with Matt Jacobson

 

Tuesday, September 28

7pm EDT

 

Gabriel Winant is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.

 

Matt Jacobson is co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of seven books on race, politics, and culture in the United States, most recently Odetta’s One Grain of Sand (2019) and The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present (2019).

Registration required; visit https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jiqHj70hQwCQvZ7uRqLQPQ

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Admission: 
Free but register in advance