"They are underpaid and haven't seen a raise in many years. This is the predicament facing many workers in the service industry, even though they play a critical key role in the contemporary capitalist economy. Gig and service-sector workers are indeed among the most overexploited segments of the working class - struggling with low pay, lack of legal protection, and insecure employment."
""The absence of legal regulation in service work has also kept the sector tethered to racialized, gendered, xenophobic, and ableist logics." In the Truthout interview that follows, McClanahan - who is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the forthcoming book Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work-"
Nearly 400 food service workers at Harry Reid International Airport are planning a strike over wage disputes after years without raises. Airport food workers earn very low wages and work long hours within a labor-intensive service sector that resists productivity gains from industrial techniques. Gig and service-sector workers face widespread overexploitation, characterized by low pay, lack of legal protection, and insecure employment. The absence of legal regulation in service work contributes to racialized, gendered, xenophobic, and ableist labor logics that exacerbate inequality. These structural conditions prompt collective labor actions as workers seek fair wages and stronger protections.
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