Join us for Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace, a Union Days book talk and panel discussion on low-wage work, inequality and the policies shaping today’s labor landscape.
Beyond unlivable wages and limited upward mobility, low-wage work in the United States often includes unsafe conditions and degrading treatment. Immigrants and people of color are overrepresented in these roles, and often feel as though they are unable to change their working conditions.
Drawing on interviews with more than 300 low-wage Haitian and Central American workers and advocates, the authors reveal how U.S. policies produce and sustain job instability and insecurity. They argue that reforming labor and employment law, immigration law and civil rights law is essential to reshaping the low-wage workplace.
Hear from the authors:
Kate L. Griffith, Jean McKelvey-Alice Grant Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Diversity, and Faculty Development, Cornell ILR School
Shannon Gleeson, Edmund Ezra Day Professor, Chairperson of the Department of Global Labor and Work, Cornell ILR School
Patricia Campos-Medina, Executive Director of the Worker Institute, Cornell ILR School
Darlène Dubuisson, Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies, University of California, Berkeley
This event is geared toward an in-person audience, so we strongly prefer you join us on our Ithaca campus. If this is not possible, please register to join us on Zoom.
Part of the ILR School's 2026 Union Days.