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Wage Theft Criminalization, Benjamin Levin
Wage Theft Criminalization, Benjamin Levin
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Over the past decade, workers’ rights activists and legal scholars have embraced the language of “wage theft” in describing the abuses of the contemporary workplace. The phrase invokes a certain moral clarity: theft is wrong. The phrase is not merely a rhetorical flourish. Increasingly, it has a specific content for activists, politicians, advocates, and academics: wage theft speaks the language of criminal law, and wage theft is a crime that should be punished. Harshly. Self-proclaimed “progressive prosecutors” have made wage theft cases a priority, and left-leaning politicians in the United States and abroad have begun to propose more criminal statutes …
A Grammar Of Legal Thought, Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
A Grammar Of Legal Thought, Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
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