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The author focuses on the politics of textbook adoption in Oakland, California, in the early 1990s. The textbooks under consideration, written by a well-known multiculturalist and former leftist activist, were attacked as racist. Meanwhile, Gitlin notes, the larger issue, the fact that state funding of education has been repeatedly slashed, goes undebated. Widening his discussion, Gitlin goes on to talk about the decline of the Left, whose preoccupation with the needs of select "identities" and "cultures" has caused the movement to squander its energy on petty turf wars. He also argues that the Right, formerly associated with privileged interests, now claims to speak for the common good

Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism. --- Diversité culturelle --- Multiculturalism --- Multiculturalism. --- Multiculturalisme --- Social conditions. --- 1980-2020. --- United States --- United States. --- Social conditions

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Poverty --- Civil rights --- Minorities --- Civil rights. --- Poverty. --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- Political activity --- Political activity. --- Since 1980 --- United States --- United States. --- Race relations --- 1980-2020

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Social change --- Politics and government. --- Social change. --- Social conditions. --- Political Research Associates --- Political Research Associates. --- Since 1980 --- United States --- United States. --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- 1980-2020

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New Age movement --- Social movements --- Industrialization --- Social aspects --- Since 1980 --- United States --- United States. --- Social conditions --- 1980-2020 --- Nineteen eighty, A.D. - Two thousand twenty A.D.

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"Presents American workers discussing their jobs as they have experienced them between 1980 and today to illustrate the challenges of changed work in the labor market. The final chapter offers potential policy solutions"-- "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."--

Working class --- Quality of work life --- Labor market --- Travailleurs --- Qualité de la vie au travail --- Marché du travail --- Attitudes. --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- 1980-2020 --- United States --- United States. --- Social conditions --- E-books