In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year. The scope of these abuses is staggering—paying employees far less than the legal minimum wage, purposefully misclassifying employees as independent contractors, illegally denying workers overtime pay—but there are ways to respond. Nationally-recognized labor activist Kim Bobo’s Wage Theft in America is an incisive handbook for organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America’s working people. Offering a sweeping analysis of the crisis and providing concrete solutions, with special attention to what a new Presidential administration can do, Wage Theft in America addresses one of the gravest issues facing workers in the 21st-century.
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Kim Bobo offers bold, practical, and progressive solutions for how policymakers and advocates can end the growing crisis of wage theft in America. —Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Wage Theft in America sheds light on a widespread problem that many are not aware of. Anyone who works for a living or knows someone who does should read this. —Bishop Gabino Zavala, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
This is a powerful, timely, and enormously important book for the religious community, social justice organizers, and all who care about justice in the workplace. —Rev. Nelson N. Johnson, executive director, Beloved Community Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year. The scope of these abuses is as staggering as it is wrong—paying employees far less than the legal minimum wage, purposefully misclassifying employees as independent contractors, illegally denying workers overtime pay—and only now are people beginning to take notice. Nationally recognized labor activist Kim Bobo’s Wage Theft in America is an incisive handbook for organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America’s working people. Offering a sweeping analysis of the crisis and providing concrete solutions, with special attention to what the new presidential administration should do, Wage Theft in America addresses one of the most egregious and unfair practices affecting workers today. —Rev. Nelson N. Johnson, executive director, Beloved Community Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
Wage Theft in America sheds light on a widespread problem that many are not aware of. Anyone who works for a living or knows someone who does should read this. —Bishop Gabino Zavala, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
This is a powerful, timely, and enormously important book for the religious community, social justice organizers, and all who care about justice in the workplace. —Rev. Nelson N. Johnson, executive director, Beloved Community Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year. The scope of these abuses is as staggering as it is wrong—paying employees far less than the legal minimum wage, purposefully misclassifying employees as independent contractors, illegally denying workers overtime pay—and only now are people beginning to take notice. Nationally recognized labor activist Kim Bobo’s Wage Theft in America is an incisive handbook for organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America’s working people. Offering a sweeping analysis of the crisis and providing concrete solutions, with special attention to what the new presidential administration should do, Wage Theft in America addresses one of the most egregious and unfair practices affecting workers today. —Rev. Nelson N. Johnson, executive director, Beloved Community Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
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Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and a columnist for Religion Dispatches (www.religiondispatches.org). She is the author of Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing and the co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the most widely used manual on progressive activism in the country. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Kimberley A. Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and a columnist for Religion Dispatches (www.religiondispatches.org. She is the author of Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing and the co-author (with Jackie Kendall and Steve Max) of Organizing for Social Change, the most widely used manual on progressive activism in the country. She lives in Chicago.
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This review is from: Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid-And What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
I see books as resources, and this book on wage theft is quiet interesting. Bobo provides specific information about the issues at stake, in addition to relating compelling stories. Certainly, she has a perspective on the problem, one that is supportive of workers who are experiencing wage theft, but she is very up front about her perspective. It seems to be an honest and well-researched offering.
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Ask your friends and family if they have been ripped off by an employer, or classified as an "independent contractor," or been paid straight time for overtime. It's hard to find someone who has not been cheated at work.
Kim Bobo's impressive and practical book targets the kind of crime that doesn't make the evening news leads, but affects millions. Wage theft -- paying below the minimum wage, cheating on hours, failing to contribute payroll taxes, skipping the last paycheck, and appropriating tips -- is a practice the government barely bothers to police. Bobo works with the Interfaith Worker Justice movement and tells dozens of excruciating tales of the common ways bosses steal free work time from employees. Have your teen kids read it, because they will unfortunately probably soon encounter wage theft. Knowing your rights is just a first step. But as an activist writer, Bobo also makes a series of policy recommendations that are sound, doable and probably just the right prescription for Obama's new Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis. While the Feds get their act together on enforcing the wage and hours law, us mere mortals can spread the word about how this form of cheating is indeed theft, and quite illegal despite its low position on most District Attorneys to-do list.
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Kim Bobo's book Wage Theft in America is an excellent if depressing book about the state of things in wage-earning America. Far from being a rare occurrence, theft of wages is commonplace these days, merely seen as a clever operating practice by companies small and large. Private firms know that enforcement is weak and that there are virtually no penalties for violating the law. The U.S. Department of Labor's wage enforcers are too few to have a significant impace on this situation, and the Congress apparently is satisfied to let this situation prevail. Kim Bobo asks only decency and honest dealings from employers. Her book deserves to be read by millions.
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