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Confronting the Gloves-Off Economy
America’s Broken Labor Standards and How to Fix Them
Heather Boushey and others release a report for the UCLA Institute on Labor and Employment on improving labor standards in the United States.
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Also by Annette Bernhardt, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly
Across the United States, growing numbers of employers are breaking, bending, or evading long-established laws and standards designed to protect workers, from the minimum wage to job safety rules to the right to organize. This “gloves-off economy,” no longer confined to a marginal set of sweatshops and fly-by-night small businesses, is sending shock waves into every corner of the low-wage—and sometimes not so low-wage—labor market. What can be done to reverse this dangerous trend?
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Heather Boushey
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