What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now - Softcover

Iversen, Roberta

 
9781439922378: What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1439922373 ISBN 13: 9781439922378
Verlag: Temple University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roberta Rehner Iversen is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Associate in Penn’s Institute for Urban Research. She is the coauthor of Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families (Temple).

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Verlag
Temple University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1439922373
ISBN 13 
9781439922378
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
207
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