Labor standards are not just enforced; they are enacted, and often in ways that are different from their stated intention. This distinction creates an opening to consider the ways that frontline workers extend and repurpose enforcement practices. Drawing on qualitative research in two US cities, the authors focus on Latino immigrant construction workers to identify the strategies they use to rework formal safety mandates to advance technical knowledge, create skill-based alliances across organizational hierarchies, and protect career trajectories. These resourcing strategies were present in both locations, but workers’ ability to affect the quality of their jobs through the collective enactment of labor standards varied significantly by city and depended on the enforcement practices in play. Workers’ attention to these localized resourcing opportunities suggests possibilities for progressive innovation at the multiple levels of government driving emerging research on regulation and federalism.

劳工标准不仅得到执行；它们的制定通常以不同于其既定意图的方式进行。这种区别为考虑一线工人扩展和重新调整执法实践的方式提供了一个机会。作者利用在美国两个城市进行的定性研究，着重研究拉丁美洲移民建筑工人，以确定他们用来重新制定正式的安全任务以提高技术知识，在整个组织层次结构中建立基于技能的联盟并保护职业发展轨迹的策略。这些资源战略都在两个地方都存在，但是工​​人通过集体制定劳工标准影响工作质量的能力因城市而异，并且取决于所采取的执法措施。