Laboring for Justice
eBook - ePub

Laboring for Justice

The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Laboring for Justice

The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Stolen Wages on Stolen Land
  9. 1. Stealing Immigrant Work
  10. 2. Boomtown: Construction and Immigration in the Mile High City
  11. 3. Dreaming for Friday: How Employers Steal Wages
  12. 4. A Day Worked Is a Day Paid: Preventing and Confronting Wage Theft
  13. 5. Failure to Pursue: The Legal Maze
  14. 6. God’s Justice: Resignation and Reckoning
  15. Interlude: Severiano’s Story: Severiano A. and Abbey Vogel
  16. 7. The DAT: Justice and Direct Action: Abbey Vogel, Diego Bleifuss Prados, Amy Czulada, Tamara Kuennen, Alexsis Sanchez, and Rebecca Galemba
  17. Interlude: Diana’s Story: Diana A. and Alexsis Sanchez, transcribed and translated by Abbey Vogel
  18. Conclusion: Sí, se puede
  19. Appendix A: Methodological Supplement
  20. Appendix B: Figures and Table
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index