Laboring for justice : the fight against wage theft in an American city / Rebecca Berke Galemba.
2023
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Title
Laboring for justice : the fight against wage theft in an American city / Rebecca Berke Galemba.
Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Description
1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, map
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : stolen wages on stolen land
Stealing immigrant work
Boomtown : construction and immigration in the Mile High City
Dreaming for Friday : how employers steal wages
A day worked is a day paid : preventing and confronting wage theft
Failure to pursue : the legal maze
God's justice : resignation and reckoning
Interlude : Severiano's story / by Severiano A. and Abbey Vogel
The DAT : justice and direct action / by Abbey Vogel, Diego Bleifuss Prados, Amy Czulada, Tamara Kuennen, Alexsis Sánchez, and Rebecca Galemba
Interlude : Diana's story / by Diana A. and Alexsis Sánchez ; transcribed and translated by Abbey Vogel
Conclusion : sí, se puede.
Stealing immigrant work
Boomtown : construction and immigration in the Mile High City
Dreaming for Friday : how employers steal wages
A day worked is a day paid : preventing and confronting wage theft
Failure to pursue : the legal maze
God's justice : resignation and reckoning
Interlude : Severiano's story / by Severiano A. and Abbey Vogel
The DAT : justice and direct action / by Abbey Vogel, Diego Bleifuss Prados, Amy Czulada, Tamara Kuennen, Alexsis Sánchez, and Rebecca Galemba
Interlude : Diana's story / by Diana A. and Alexsis Sánchez ; transcribed and translated by Abbey Vogel
Conclusion : sí, se puede.
Summary
"Drawing on more than five years of community-engaged research, this book analyzes the widespread problem of wage theft and its disproportionate impact on low-wage immigrant workers. Rebecca Galemba focuses on the plight of day laborers in Denver, Colorado--a quintessential purple state that has swung between some of the harshest and more welcoming policies around immigrant and labor rights--to reveal how labor abuses like wage theft persist, and how advocates, attorneys, and workers struggle to redress and prevent those abuses using proactive policy, legal challenges, and direct action tactics. As more and more industries move away from secure, permanent employment and towards casualized labor practices, this book shines a light on wage theft as symptomatic of larger, systemic issues throughout the U.S. economy, and illustrates how workers can deploy effective strategies to endure and improve their position in the world amidst precarity through everyday forms of convivencia and resistance. Applying a public anthropology approach that integrates the experiences of community partners, students, policy makers, and activists in the production of research, this book uses the pressing issue of wage theft to offer a methodologically rigorous, community-engaged, and pedagogically innovative approach to the study of immigration, labor, inequality, and social justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 18, 2023).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Galemba, Rebecca B., 1981- Laboring for justice Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023
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Language
English
ISBN
9781503635210 electronic book
150363521X electronic book
9781503613454 hardcover
9781503635203 paperback
1503613453 paperback
150363521X electronic book
9781503613454 hardcover
9781503635203 paperback
1503613453 paperback
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