Critical Wage Theory (eBook)

Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice

Ruben J. Garcia (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
226 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38804-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In this highly original and personal book, Ruben J. Garcia argues forcefully that we must center the minimum wage as a tool for fighting structural racism. Employing the lessons of critical race theory to show how low minimum wages and underenforcement of workplace laws have always been features of our racially stratified society, Garcia explains why we must follow the leadership of social movements by treating increases in minimum wage levels and enforcement as matters of racial justice. Offering solutions that would benefit all workers, especially the immigrants and people of color most often made victims of wage theft, Critical Wage Theory is essential reading for anyone who seeks a more just future for the working class.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 
Introduction: The Importance of the Minimum Wage 

1. A Critical Race Theory of Wage Justice 
2. Movements Framing the Minimum Wage as a Matter of Racial Justice 
3. Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Exotic Dancers: At Risk for Wage Theft 
4. Legally Sanctioned Subminimum Wages 
5. Legacies of Race and Slavery: Sweatshops, Prisons, Fields 
6. The Racial Political Economy: Gig Workers, Home Workers, and the State 
7. Improving the Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Justice 
8. The Future of the Minimum Wage in the Global Economy 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: BLM • critical race theory • domestic workers • economic justice • Fair Labor Standards Act • federal minimum wage reform • janitorial staff • Labor • living wage • meat processing plant • service charges • TIPS • undocumented • wage theft • worker retention ordinances • Workers
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38804-6 / 0520388046
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38804-8 / 9780520388048