Latino immigrant day laborers are among the most vulnerable populations in the USA, frequently subject to work-related abuses such as wage theft in violation of federal and state labor laws. Despite legal reforms to facilitate wage recovery for low-wage workers and to recognize wage theft as a crime, this article draws on over two years of community-based research to show how day laborers face challenges mobilizing their legal rights and holding employers accountable for the crimes they suffer owing to their own criminalization and devaluation in US society. Contributing to harms-based approaches in critical criminology, it explores how individual legal remedies or criminal justice responses can risk obscuring the ways that wage theft is embedded along a continuum of legal and illegal exploitative labor practices that are normalized and maintained by the broader degradation of work and the criminalization of immigration.

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“他们偷了我们的工作”：美国科罗拉多州的工资盗窃和移民代工的刑事定罪

拉丁裔移民日工是美国最脆弱的人群之一，经常遭受与工作相关的虐待，例如违反联邦和州劳动法的工资盗窃。尽管进行了法律改革以促进低工资工人的工资恢复并将盗窃工资视为犯罪，但本文利用两年多以社区为基础的研究，展示了临时工如何在动员其合法权利和追究雇主对工资的责任方面面临挑战他们因自己在美国社会的刑事定罪和贬值而遭受的罪行。为批判犯罪学中基于危害的方法做出贡献，