Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495016to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Job: The Untold Story of America’s Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health Author: Jane M. Von Bergen, Celeste Monforton Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Genres: HR & Admin Publisher's Summary: For over 60 million people, work in America has been a story of declining wages, insecurity, and unsafe conditions, especially amid the coronavirus epidemic. This new and troubling reality has galvanized media and policymakers, but all the while a different and little-known story of rebirth and struggle has percolated just below the surface. On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country's most vulnerable—but essential—workers. Noted public health expert Celeste Monforton and award-winning journalist Jane M. Von Bergen crisscrossed the country, speaking with workers of all backgrounds and uncovering the stories of hundreds of new, worker-led organizations (often simply called worker centers) that have successfully achieved higher wages, safer working conditions, and on-the-job dignity for their members. On the Job describes ordinary people finding their voice and challenging power: from housekeepers in Chicago and Houston; to poultry workers in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Springdale, Arkansas; and construction workers across the state of Texas. An inspiring book for dark times, On the Job reveals that labor activism is actually alive and growing—and holds the key to a different future for all working people.

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