Laboring for justice : the fight against wage theft in an American city / Rebecca Berke Galemba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galemba, Rebecca B., 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wages--Foreign workers--Colorado--Denver.

Wages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Laboring for Justice highlights the experiences of day laborers and advocates in the struggle against wage theft in Denver, Colorado. Drawing on more than seven years of research that earned special recognition for its community engagement, 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. With collaborators and community partners, Galemba reveals 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stolen Wages on Stolen Land

1. Stealing Immigrant Work

2. Boomtown

3. Dreaming for Friday

4. A Day Worked Is a Day Paid

5. Failure to Pursue

6. God’s Justice

Interlude: Severiano’s Story

7. The DAT

Interlude: Diana’s Story

Conclusion

Appendix A: Methodological Supplement

Appendix B: Figures and Table

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Galemba, Rebecca Berke Laboring for Justice

ISBN:

9781503635210

150363521X

OCLC:

1374540023