{"product_id":"beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work-9781945861093","title":"Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Wage \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eretheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDo these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism\u003ci\u003e, Beneath the Wage\u003c\/i\u003e reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAssembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work--from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers' own descriptions of what they do--McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done \"beneath the wage\" depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie McClanahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945861093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnie McClanahan\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Annie McClanahan \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47834164428957,"sku":"9781945861093","price":47.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d0661418-60dd-419e-8dac-ad4a68252926.jpg?v=1776145108","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work-9781945861093","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}