Nearly 400 food service workers are set to go on strike at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas this week over wage disputes. They are underpaid and haven’t seen a raise in many years. This is the predicament facing many workers in the service industry, even though they play a critical key role in the contemporary capitalist economy. Gig and service sector workers are indeed among the most overexploited segments of the working class — struggling with low pay, lack of legal protection, and insecure employment. Moreover, as Marxist-feminist scholar Annie McClanahan has explored in her research on the struggles of service workers, “The absence of legal regulation in service work has also kept the sector tethered to racialized, gendered, xenophobic, and ableist logics.” In the Trutho

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