Wage Theft and Work Safety: Immigrant Day Labor Jobs and the Potential for Worker Rights Training at Worker Centers

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dc.creatorTakasaki, Kara
dc.creatorKammer-Kerwick, Matt
dc.creatorYundt-Pacheco, Mayra
dc.creatorTorres, Melissa I.M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-10T20:41:22Z
dc.date.available2023-05-10T20:41:22Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractImmigrant day laborers routinely experience exploitative behaviors as part of their employment. These day laborers perceive the exploitation they experience in the context of their immigration histories and in the context of their long-term goals for better working and living conditions. Using mixed methods, over three data collection periods in 2016, 2019 and 2020, we analyze the work experiences of immigrant day laborers in Houston and Austin, Texas. We report how workers evaluate precarious jobs and respond to labor exploitation in an informal labor market. We also discuss data from a worker rights training intervention conducted through a city-sponsored worker center. We discuss the potential for worker centers to be a convening and remediation space for workers and employers. Worker centers offer a potential space for informal intervention into wage theft and work safety violations by regulating the hiring context where day laborers meet employers.en_US
dc.description.departmentBureau of Business Researchen_US
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1163/24714607-BJA10066
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/118806
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/45685
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Labor and Societyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofBureau of Business Research reportsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectprecarious worken_US
dc.subjectimmigrant exploitationen_US
dc.subjectwage theften_US
dc.subjectworker centeren_US
dc.subjectTexasen_US
dc.titleWage Theft and Work Safety: Immigrant Day Labor Jobs and the Potential for Worker Rights Training at Worker Centersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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