- Publisher: The New Press
- ISBN: 9781595587176
- Price: $20.50 CAD
- Publication Date: Nov 2011
- Rights: Canada
- Pages: 336
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Request Exam CopyWage Theft in America
Why Millions of Working Americans are Not Being Paid – And What We Can Do About It
Kim Bobo
While the first edition of Wage Theft in America documented the scope of the problem, this new edition adds the latest research on wage theft and tells what community, religious, and labor activists are now doing to address the crisis—from passing state and local wage-theft bills to establishing mayoral task forces and tapping agencies that help low-wage workers in spotting wage theft. Offering a sweeping analysis of the crisis, citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers, this new and updated edition of Wage Theft in America offers concrete solutions and a road map for putting an end to this insidious practice.
Contents
· Acknowledgments
· Introduction
Part I: Wage Theft
1. The Crisis of Wage Theft
2. How Employers Steal Wages
3. Payroll Fraud
4. Why Employers Steal Wages
5. How U.S. Labor Laws Fail Workers
Part II: Vehicles for Stopping Wage Theft
6. Organizing to Stop Wage Theft: Why Unions Matter
7. Workers’ Centers: Front Lines against Wage Theft
8. Business Leaders Challenge Wage Theft
Part III: Strengthening Enforcement
9. Leadership Matters: Lessons from Frances Perkins 1
10. The U.S. Department of Labor: More Important Than Ever
11. Strengthening State Enforcement
12. Strengthening Local Enforcement
Part IV: What You Can Do to Stop Wage Theft
13. Stopping Wage Theft Is Good for America
14. You Can Make a Difference
Appendices: Additional Resources
· Appendix A: Department of Labor Wage and Hour Settlements
· Appendix B: Private Wage and Hour Lawsuits
· Appendix C: Catholic Labor Schools
· Appendix D: Workers’ Centers and Legal Clinics
· Appendix E: Faith Body Positions on Wages and Working Conditions
· Appendix F: National Organizations Fighting Wage Theft
· Appendix G: Congregational Study Guide for Wage Theft in America
· Notes
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