Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough review Annie McClanahan's “Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work,” which theorizes a new conceptual role for tipwork and piecework. Often assumed to be contemporary features of labor, McClanahan argues, these modes of service and care work—feminized, racialized, and invisibilized—have in fact been essential [...]

Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough review Annie McClanahan’s “Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work,” which theorizes a new conceptual role for tipwork and piecework. Often assumed to be contemporary features of labor, McClanahan argues, these modes of service and care work—feminized, racialized, and invisibilized—have in fact been essential to the historical development of capitalism.

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