Section I. Introduction to the "Gloves-off Economy" Chapter 1. An Introduction to the "Gloves-off Economy" Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey = 1 Section II. How Employers Take the Gloves Off Chapter 2. Working Beyond the Reach or Grasp of Employment Law = 31 Chapter 3. Putting Wages Back into Competition: Deunionization and Degradation in Place-Bound Industries = 65 Chapter 4. Day Labor and Workplace Abuses in the Residential Construction Industry: Conditions in the Washington, DC, Region = 91 Chapter 5. Cleaning and Caring in the Home: Shared Problems? Shared Possibilities? = 111 Section III. Workers at Risk Chapter 6. Working on the Margins: Migration and Employment in the United States = 137 Chapter 7. Single Mothers in the Era of Welfare Reform = 163 Chapter 8. The New Challenge of Employment in the Era of Criminal Background Checks = 191 Section IV Putting the Gloves Back On Chapter 9. State and Local Policy Models Promoting Immigrant Worker Justice = 217 Chapter 10. Fighting and Winning in the Outsourced Economy: Justice for Janitors at the University of Miami = 243 Chapter 11. New Directions for the Living Wage Movement = 269 Chapter 12. Mighty Monolith or Fractured Federation? Business Opposition and the Enactment of Workplace Legislation = 287