Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time
基于马克思主义政治经济学，通过对伦敦酒店工人的质性研究，提出一种新的工资盗窃类型学，揭示雇主如何通过正式违法和隐性手段榨取无偿劳动时间，挑战了现有法律和学术定义。
Drawing on Marxist political economy, this article examines wage theft in hospitality work. Through a detailed, qualitative study of workers’ experiences in London hotels, a novel typology is developed that reveals how managers extract additional unpaid labour time through wage theft. The article argues that both the legal definition and existing academic formulations of wage theft fail to encompass the full range of ways that employers extract unpaid labour time. They also overlook the systemic dimension of unpaid labour time under capitalism. The article contributes new insights into the sociological dimensions of exploitation by proposing an alternative conceptualisation of wage theft that incorporates both formal violations of the law and the more subtle, informal means by which the theft of wages is secured.