One fair wage : ending subminimum pay in America / Sarumathi Jayaraman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minimum wage--United States.

Minimum wage.

Tipping--United States.

Tipping.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The New Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the country, more than six million people earned their living as tipped workers in the service industry. They served us in cafes and restaurants, they delivered food to our homes, they drove us wherever we wanted to go, and they worked in nail salons for as little as $2.13 an hour--the federal tipped minimum wage since 1991--leaving them with next to nothing to get by. These workers, unsurprisingly, were among the most vulnerable workers during the pandemic. As businesses across the country closed down or drastically scaled back their services, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs. As in many other areas, the pandemic exposed the inadequacies of the nation's social safety net and minimum-wage standards. In her new book, One Fair Wage, Jayaraman shines a light on these workers, showing how the people left out of the fight for a fair minimum wage are society's most marginalized: people of color, many of them immigrants; women, who form the majority of tipped workers; disabled workers; incarcerated workers; and youth workers. They epitomize the direction of our whole economy, reflecting the precariousness and instability that is increasingly the lot of American labor"

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

1 The History of Subminimum Wages

2 Trupti

3 Teto

4 Dia and Adrinne

5 Yenelia

6 Debbie and Marshan

7 Vianne

8 Angel

9 Frances and Fiona

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781620975343

1620975343

OCLC:

1264474526