{"product_id":"what-workers-say-decades-of-struggle-and-how-to-make-real-opportunity-now-9781439922378","title":"What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In \u003ci\u003eWhat Workers Say, \u003c\/i\u003eRoberta 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 \u003ci\u003ereal \u003c\/i\u003eopportunity for advancement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Workers Say\u003c\/i\u003e takes its cue from Studs Terkel's \u003ci\u003eWorking, \u003c\/i\u003eas 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. \u003ci\u003eWhat Workers Say\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3726217\"\u003eRoberta Iversen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439922378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439922373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS038000\"\u003eLabor | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL013000\"\u003eLabor \u0026amp; Industrial Relations\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC020000\"\u003eMinority Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberta Rehner Iversen\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy \u0026amp; Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Associate in Penn's Institute for Urban Research. She is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eJobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families \u003c\/i\u003e(Temple).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44538829701357,"sku":"9781439922378","price":39.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d593339e-68ff-424b-9597-ee3ee415ba23.jpg?v=1701461150","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/what-workers-say-decades-of-struggle-and-how-to-make-real-opportunity-now-9781439922378","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}