Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice
Justin Miller Award Recipient
Melana Dayanim
Justin Miller Award Category
Integrity
Justin Miller Award Date
2025
Description
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.
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Date
2024
ISBN
9780520388017