the 1980's, a decade that also featured a collapse in the relative (and real) wages of the last skilled (Bound and Freeman …

unpaid wages under both federal and state law. Overlapping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor … Law both authorize private actions for the recovery of certain unpaid wages, and each also provides an additional 100 … percent of the unpaid wages as liquidated damages unless the employer establishes a good-faith defense. Given these …