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What Workers Say - Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now (Hardcover)
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What Workers Say - Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now (Hardcover)
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What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do
the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta
Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industries-like
manufacturing, construction, printing-as well as those in
service-producing jobs, like clerical work, healthcare, food
service, retail, and automotive-jobs are often discriminatory, are
sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people's
full range of capabilities. Most importantly, they fail to provide
any real opportunity for advancement. What Workers Say takes its
cue from Studs Terkel's Working, as Iversen interviewed more than
1,200 workers to present stories about their labor market jobs
since 1980. She puts a human face on the experiences of a broad
range of workers indicating what their jobs were and are truly
like. Iversen reveals how transformations in the political economy
of waged work have shrunk or eliminated opportunity for workers,
families, communities, and productivity. What Workers Say also
offers an innovative proposal for compensated civil labor that
could enable workers, their communities, labor market
organizations, and the national infrastructure to actually
flourish.
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