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Faculty Affiliate

  • Rebecca Galemba
  • Josef Korbel School

 

Other Affiliates

  • Collaboration with Tammy Kuennen, Sturm College of Law

 

About

Since 2013, Galemba has been training graduate students through her Qualitative Research Methods course and as research assistants to document and take action against wage theft and its disproportionate impact on Latino immigrant workers, such as day laborers. Nearly 100 DU students have participated by conducting ethnographic fieldwork and surveys at day labor hiring sites, interviewing employers, attorneys, and advocates, and engaging in labor rights outreach and activism alongside workers. Galemba has also translated her research into policy-briefs, testimony for city council, and reports for other advocates and policy-makers. She and her students volunteer with Centro Humanitario’s Wage Theft Direct Action Team to assist workers recover their unpaid wages from their employers. Former students, DU Sturm College of Law Professor, Tammy Kuennen, and a community activist co-author a chapter about wage theft direct action in Galemba’s book, Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against WAges Theft in an American City (Stanford University Press 2023).

 

Community Partners: Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores, Towards Justice, Dayton Street Day Labor Center

 

News coverage: https://korbel.du.edu/news-events/all-articles/professors-research-investigates-wage-theft-among-colorado-day-laborers and collaboration with the Civil Litigation Clinic at the Sturm College of Law

 

Learn more about the project, book, art exhibit, and read contributions by students and community partners on the DU Just Wages blog.