Race, Sex, and Working Identities: Decentering the Firm: The Limited Liability Company and Low-Wage Immigrant Women Workers

Grounding her approach in Critical Race Feminist dialogue, the author proposes utilizing the Limited Liability Company (LLC) principle from business associations law to empower low-wage immigrant women workers by transforming them into business owners. She begins by analyzing the challenges that low-wage immigrant women workers face through a feminist and critical race lens. Corporate law is then examined as an under-utilized means by which to improve the social and human rights situation of low-wage immigrant women workers. She argues that the LLC structure would allow workers to protect themselves from being exploited by intermediaries who receive large proportions of their wages as well as enable workers to purchase collective benefits for the group, such as health insurance. [Descriptors: Migration - Labour Migration, International]