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

Roberta Iverson M.S.S. ’82, Ph.D. ’91

What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now by Roberta Iverson M.S.S. ’82, Ph.D. ’91, chronicles the last 40 years in the labor market and concludes that, “jobs are often discriminatory, are sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people’s full range of capabilities.”

An associate professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Iversen interviewed more than 1,200 workers for the book. (Temple University Press, 2022)

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Fall 2022

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