Gabriel Winant

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.

‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant

‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant ‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant

Four writers on the legacy of Berlant’s thinking both in the academy and in public life.

Jul 8, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Judith Butler, Maggie Doherty, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Gabriel Winant

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Letters From the February 24, 2020, Issue Letters From the February 24, 2020, Issue

Competing theories… A serious misconception (web only)…

Feb 11, 2020 / Our Readers and Gabriel Winant

Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?

Is Anti-Monopolism Enough? Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?

In Goliath, Matt Stoller argues that US history has been defined by a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but to understand inequality today requires engaging with questions o...

Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant

One Thousand Years of Labor

One Thousand Years of Labor One Thousand Years of Labor

Andrea Komlosy’s new history traces our evolving notions of work and how what we do is ultimately also about what we owe one another.

Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant

Janus v. AFSCME unions free speech case

Will ‘Janus’ Prove to Be the Fatal Blow That Unions Have Long Feared? Will ‘Janus’ Prove to Be the Fatal Blow That Unions Have Long Feared?

Or will it inspire the kind of militant unionism that could still resurrect the labor movement? 

Jun 27, 2018 / Gabriel Winant

Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

Organized Labor’s Lost Generations Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

Unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.

Feb 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant

Birth of an Imperial Nation

Birth of an Imperial Nation Birth of an Imperial Nation

A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.

Jan 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant

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