Critical Wage Theory

Ruben J. Garcia is Professor of Law and Co-director of the Workplace Law Program at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is author of Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection.

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