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Elizabeth Chun Writing 39C Professor Rose Jones March 19, 2004 Advocating the Day Laborer Fairness and Protection Act As the American economy continues its eleven-year boom, employers proceed to replace standard employees with day laborers and contingent workers. However, recent studies indicate that employers have been exploiting this increasing source of cheap labor, by failing to provide standard working benefits and sufficient living wages. Barbara Ehrenreich, a well known author and journalist, discusses in her book, Nickel and Dimed, this exploitation of contingent workers and describes from personal experience, "I don't know how my coworkers survive on their wages or what they make of our hellish condition" (Ehrenreich 89). Throughout her book, Ehrenreich demonstrates how her fellow employees are forced to endure work-related injuries and poor health, while barely surviving on the below minimum wage that they make. Today, research shows that despite legal minimum wages and hour protections afforded to standard and nonstandard workers...

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