Marginal Workers

Ruben J. Garcia is Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law.

"At a moment of growing unrest around work relations, this book is a breath of fresh air. Garcia offers an analysis of the possibilities and challenges of work law reform that is rich and nuanced. The book succeeds in bringing together principles of workers rights with the realities of todays economy. Garcia masterfully weaves together vivid stories about workplace settings with thought-provoking ideas about legal boundaries, policy and law reform. Garcia is simultaneously practical and a visionary. Garcia is an experienced and engaged scholar and advocate and Marginal Workers holds the promise of revitalizing political and academic discussions across multiple disciplinary fields. Marginal Workers will be of immense value to anyone interested in the future of employment and labor law. The book will serve thinkers, activists and reformers for many years to come." - Orly Lobel "Ruben Garcias Marginal Workers moves the bar on workers rights advocacy. This important, synthesizing work should reach legal, policy, and activist communities throughout the United States. Garcia illuminates the interstices of a statutory and regulatory system meant to protect employees, but which leaves millions of low-wage workers exposed to workplace abuse. He does not rest with analyzing the problem; he offers ideas and proposals for relaunching workers rights from a platform of first principles, not transient policy preferences." - Lance Compa "Advanced readers will appreciate the survey of alternative strategies....recommended." (CHOICE) "Garcia shows convincingly how these apparently disparate groups of workers are all subjected to exclusionary and exploitative employment practices. Particularly valuable is his emphasis on labour rights that go beyond the & core International Labour Organization rights of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining towards universal rights that include all workers, regardless of their union or citizenship status." (Work, Employment, and Society)

• Preface: The Place of the Law in the Workplace Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Who Are the Marginal Workers? 2. Framing Workers' Rights: The Legal and Theoretical Underpinnings for the Protection of Marginal Workers3. New Voices at Work: Unionized Workers at the Intersection of Race and Gender4. Across the Borders: How Antidiscrimination Law Fails Noncitizens and Other Marginal Workers5. Labor as Property: Guestworkers at the Margins of Domestic Legal Systems6. A Global Understanding of Worker Protection Notes Index About the Author