Kim Bobo Discusses "Wage Theft in America"

During the recent sit-in by the workers at Republic Windows and Doors, wage theft in America grabbed national headlines, but it is far from being a new phenomenon. Every year, billions of dollars' worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers, a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category on record annually, and in today's economy this crime affects more Americans than ever before. In her new book, author and organizer Kim Bobo (Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice and co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the best-selling manual on progressive organizing in print), offers an incisive handbook for
activists, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent flagrant exploitation of America's working people, including a sweeping analysis of the crisis, hard-hitting statistics, and heart-breaking first-person accounts.

Kim Bobo is the founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a national religion-labor network based in Chicago. She is the co-author of Organizing for Social Change (the best-selling organizing manual in the country) and the author of (Wage Theft in America: Why
Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid- And What We Can Do About It (The New Press, December 2008).

Co-Sponsors: Interfaith Worker Justice; Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues; Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (journal edited by UIC Professor Leon Fink); Center for Urban and Economic Development, UIC; Work Race, Gender, and the Urban World
Concentration of the History Department at UIC; Political Science Department, UIC; Latin American and Latino Studies, UIC; Labor Education Program, UIC

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