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Tipped: The Service Industry's Exploitation of Immigrant Workers Teofilo Reyes 9781620975336

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Six million workers in America are tipped workers, relying on a subminimum wage and the whims of customers to feed themselves and their families. Over a million of them are immigrants, and the unpredictability of tips combined with the unpredictability of life as an immigrant creates an unstable, uncertain future. Tipped points to a new future in which immigrants are welcome and the service sector can prosper with, not off of, its immigrant workforce.

About the Author

Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.



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Book Information
ISBN 9781620975336
Author Teofilo Reyes
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press

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