Personally, I don't think that "solution" is as obscure as it is made out to be. This problem isn't new and has been studied for years. When a worker feels forced to work such arduous hours (as opposed to someone in finance or tech who puts the extra hours to get ahead), in a fair system, I assume one would ask "why didn't he just find a new job". The answer I come to is he can't - the threat of poverty is far to great in the US to even think about the uncertainty of leaving your current job, especially if you are living paycheck to paycheck. If you fix this problem then I believe most labor abuse would go away. I don't think it involves some sort of "reimagining" of novel solutions. Furthermore I think solutions involving overtime laws are just band-aids.

Unfortunately any kind of solution that tries to address the market side effects of labor will die in the US by the socialism boogeyman