News Brief: US Media Treats Amazon's Wage Theft as Mere Clerical Error
Added 2021-02-06 21:09:50 +0000 UTC"Withholding," "misusing," "used to subsidized" - in this Patreon News Brief, we break down the legal and linguistic contortions required to make sure rich people are never accused of "stealing."
Show Notes
Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
Brady Meixell and Ross Eisenbrey | September 18, 2014 | Economic Policy Institute
Celine McNicholas, Zane Mokhiber, and Adam Chaikof | December 13, 2017 | Economic Policy Institute
Employers steal billions from some of nation's most vulnerable workers
Lydia DePillis | December 18, 2017 | CNN Business
Wage theft scourge is a massive bank robbery every day
Frank Callahan | February 23, 2020 | The Milford Daily News
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities
Annette Bernhardt, Ruth Milkman and Nik Theodore | September 21, 2009 | National Employment Law Project
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