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.

• ContentsAcknowledgments 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

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgments 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

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgments 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