num_pages: 256
description: The federal tipped minimum wage since 1991 (yes that is thirty years) has been $2.13. Prior to COVID six million people that we are aware of worked off this system meaning when the pandemic hit tons of them lost their jobs and the varied security that came with them. In Jayaramans newest book she shines a light on these workers illustrating how the people left out of the fight for a fair minimum wage are societys most marginalized: people of color many of them immigrants; women who form the majority of tipped workers; disabled workers; incarcerated workers; and youth workers. Jayaraman is the director of the Food Labor Research Center at U-C Berkeley.
language: English
title: One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
publisher: The New Press