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Unlivable: Increased Sexual Harassment and Wage Theft Continue to Drive women, Women of Color, and Single Mothers Out of the Service Sector

The Crisis of Low Wages in the U.S.: Who Makes Less than $15 an Hour in 2022?

Pandemic Tales: Uplifting the Voices and Organizing of Filipino Migrant Workers

The Toll of Household Cleaning Work: Economic and Health Precarity of Immigrant Latinx Cleaners in New York

Survival Economies: Black Informality in Chicago

Wage Theft in a Recession: Unemployment, Labour Violations, and Enforcement Strategies for Difficult Times.

The Warehouse Workers Resource Center in Southern California.

Worker Injuries in Southern California’s Warehousing Industry: How to Better Protect Workers in This Burgeoning Industry?

Structural racism and immigrant health: exploring the association between wage theft, mental health, and injury among Latino day laborers.

“They Steal Our Work”: Wage Theft and the Criminalization of Immigrant Day Laborers in Colorado, USA.

“No Place for Old Men”: Immigrant Duration, Wage Theft, and Economic Mobility among Day Laborers in Denver, Colorado.

Cosmopolitan politics and the migrant day labor movement.

COVID Jungle: Chicagoland’s Essential Food Workers and the Need for Vaccination Priority

Opening the Door: Ending Racial Discrimination in Industrial Temp Hiring Through Innovative Enforcement

Honrando a Los Caidos/Honoring the Fallen: an NDLON Report on the Impacts of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic on Immigrant Workers and People of Color in the United States

Working on the Edge: A Survey of Low-Wage Workers in the Birmingham Area Amid a Global Pandemic

Platform Power to the People

Essential but Excluded: How COVID-19 Relief has Bypassed Immigrant Communities in New Mexico

Meeting the Moment: An Early Assessment of the Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund during the COVID-19 Pandemic

How do live-in domestic workers differ from live-out domestic workers? An analysis of demographics and work characteristics.

Mapping Wage Theft in the Informal Economy: Employment Standards Violations in Residential Construction and Renovations.

Beyond Occupational Hazards: Abuse of Day Laborers and Health.

Regulating informality: Worker centers and collective action in day‐labor markets.

Day Laborers in the Eye of the Storm: As climate crises make post-disaster recovery work ever more essential, protecting migrant laborers from hazardous conditions and exploitation is an increasingly urgent task.

Six Months in Crisis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic Workers

Center for Women and Work: Domestic Workers in New Jersey

Notes from the Storm: Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19

Reimagined Recovery: Black Workers, the Public Sector, and COVID-19

Profile of Domestic Workers in California

Resilience Force, The New Florida Majority

A People’s Framework for Disaster Response: Rewriting the Rules of Recovery after Climate Disasters

Workplace health and safety hazards faced by informally employed domestic workers in the United States.

The Hidden Hand of Domestic Labor: Domestic Employers’ Work Practices in Chicago, USA.

Desperate Fortunes: Latina Warehouse Workers in the “Matrix of Domination”.

The Gig is Up: The new gig economy and the threat of subminimum wages

Exposures at day labor corners: using existing georeferenced data to describe features of urban environments.

Human Trafficking at Home: Labor Trafficking of Domestic Workers

Packaging Pain: Workplace Injuries in Amazon’s Empire

Technology and Disruption: Workers’ Predictions on the Future of Retail

The Datafication of Employment: How Surveillance and Capitalism Are Shaping Workers’ Futures without Their Knowledge

Day Labor in Las Vegas: Employer Indiscretions in Sin City

Intersectional histories, overdetermined fortunes: Understanding Mexican and US domestic worker movements.

The matrix of exploitation and temporary employment: Earnings inequality among Inland Southern California’s blue-collar warehouse workers.

Better Wages, Better Tips: Restaurants Flourish with One Fair Wage

Pay, Professionalism & Respect: Black Domestic Workers Continue the Call for Standards in the Care Industry

Living in the Shadows: Latina Domestic Workers in the Texas-Mexico Border Region

Mapping the Restaurant High-Value Supply Chain

More Than a Gig: A Survey of Ride-hailing Drivers in Los Angeles

Boxed In: Gender Discrimination in Illinois Warehouses

What Do We Know about Gig Work in California?

Dying on the Job in Mississippi: Lack of Adequate Protection for Injured Workers Hurts Families and Communities

New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence

After the Storm: Houston’s Day Labor Markets in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Supra-union and intersectional organizing: An examination of two prominent cases in the low-wage US restaurant industry.

Doing Business Responsibly: ROC United and Restaurant Workers.

Barriers to Latino Warehouse Workers’ Health Care: Survey Results from Inland Southern California and Policy Implications.

After the Storm: Houston’s Day Labor Markets in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

The Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers in the United States: Findings from the Beyond Survival Campaign

Build a Better South: Construction Working Conditions in the Southern U.S.

Temporary Work, Permanent Abuse: How Big Business Destroys Good Jobs

Challenging the Business of Fear: Ending Workplace Retaliation, Enforcing Workers’ Rights

Day Labor in Seattle: Casa Latina’s Impact on Wages and Earnings

Building political agency and movement leadership: the grassroots organizing model of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates.

Tipped Over: Employer Liability in a Two-Tiered Wage State

Behind the Kitchen Door: The Promise of Opportunity in the San Francisco and Oakland Bay Area Restaurant Industry

Behind the Kitchen Door: Promise and Denial in Boston’s Growing Restaurant Industry

Behind the Kitchen Door: The Hidden Reality of Philadelphia’s Thriving Restaurant Industry

Nightcare: The Growing Challenge for Parents on the Late Shift

The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America

Forked: A New Standard for American Dining

No Piece of the Pie: U.S. Food Workers in 2016

Dirty Threads, Dangerous Factories: Health and Safety in Los Angeles’ Fashion Industry

Shadow Prisons: Immigrant Detention in the South

A Snapshot of the On-Demand Economy Landscape

Rights on Demand: Ensuring Workplace Standards and Worker Security in the On-Demand Economy

Behind the Polish: Experiences of Nepali-Speaking Nail Salon Workers in New York City

Transnational Workers Rights: Emerging Strategies from the Global North and South

Working Below the Line: How the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Restaurant Workers Violates International Human Rights Standards

Picking Up the Tab: The Public Cost of Low Wages in the Full-Service Restaurant Industry

Behind the Kitchen Door: Extreme Inequality and Opportunity in Houston’s Vibrant Restaurant Economy

Ending Jim Crow in America’s Restaurants: Racial and Gender Occupational Segregation in the Restaurant Industry

Day labor, informality and vulnerability in South Africa and the United States.

Beyond Survival: Organizing to End Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers

The Failed Promise of the Texas Miracle

Hanging by a Thread: Los Angeles Garment Workers’ Struggle to Access Quality Care for their Children

Held Up Without a Gun: Wage Theft in Minnesota’s Janitorial Industry

Confronting Exploitation: The Face of Low-Wage Work in the Twin Cities

Invisible No More: Domestic workers organizing in Massachusetts and beyond

Feeding America: Immigrants in the restaurant industry and throughout the food system take action for change.

Recipe for Success: Abolish the Subminimum Wage to Strengthen the Restaurant Industry

The Great Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in the U.S. Restaurant Industry

The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry

A National Study of Human Resource Practices, Turnover, and Customer Service in the Restaurant Industry

Wage theft among Latino day laborers in post-Katrina New Orleans: Comparing contractors with other employers.

Worker centers and day laborers’ wages.

Hurricane Katrina, a construction boom, and a new labor force: Latino immigrants and the New Orleans construction industry, 2000 and 2006–2010.

Shelved: How wages and working conditions for California’s food retail workers have declined as the industry has thrived

Deporting the Evidence: Migrant Workers in the South Expose How U.S. Immigration Enforcement against Human Rights Defenders Violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Organizing Wins: How Yank Sing Workers Transformed their Workplace and the Entire Industry

Temped Out: How the Domestic Outsourcing of Blue-Collar Jobs Harms America’s Workers

Workers’ Rights on ICE: How Immigration Reform Can Stop Retaliation and Advance Labor Rights

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