Gabriel Winant is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism. His work approaches capitalism as an expansive social order—not confined to the market alone but rather structurally composed of multiple, heterogeneous spheres. He focuses on the relationship between economic production and formal employment, on the one hand, and the social reproduction and governance of the population, on the other. Broadly, he is interested in transformations in the social division of labor and the making and management of social difference through this process. Winant's first book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, investigates the rise of the “service economy” in the aftermath of manufacturing. His second project, tentatively titled Our Weary Years: How the Working Class Survived Industrial America, explores similar problems in an earlier period.

To learn more about Gabriel Winant's research and publications, please visit his profile page at the Department of History.