"We are all fast-food workers now" : the global uprising against poverty wages /

"We are all fast-food workers now" : the global uprising against poverty wages /

"The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from...

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Main Author: Orleck, Annelise (Author)
Other Authors: Cooke, Liz (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Working poor > Interviews.
Living wage movement.
Nonfiction.
Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Poverty wages, we're not lovin' it: roots and branches of a global uprising
  • Brands of wage slavery, marks of labor solidarity
  • Inequality rising
  • All we're asking for is a little respect
  • "We are workers, not slaves"
  • "I consider the union my second mother"
  • Hotel housekeepers go Norma Rae
  • United for respect: OUR Walmart and the uprising of retail workers
  • Supersize my wages: fast-food workers and the march of history
  • 1911-2011: history and the global labor struggle
  • People Power movements in the twenty-first century
  • "You can't dismantle capitalism without dismantling patriarchy"
  • This is what solidarity feels like
  • Part II. The rising of the global precariat
  • Respect, let it go, 'cause baby, you're a firework
  • Realizing precarity: "We are all fast-food workers now"
  • Days of disruption, 2016
  • The new civil rights movement
  • Counting victories, girding for an uphill struggle
  • Huelga de Hambre: hunger and hunger strikes rising
  • Social movement unionism and the souls of workers
  • "Contractualization"
  • "Stand up, live better": organizing for respect at Walmart
  • Part III. Garment workers' organizing in the age of fast fashion
  • "If people would think about us, we wouldn't die": beautiful clothes, ugly reality
  • How the rag trade went global
  • "The girl effect"
  • "Made with love in Bangladesh"
  • "We are not a pocket revolution": Bangladeshi garment workers since Rana Plaza
  • "A Khmer would rather work for free than work without dignity"
  • "After Pol Pot, we need a good life"
  • Consciousness-raising, Cambodia style
  • Filipina garment workers, organizing in the zone
  • Part IV. No rice without freedom, no freedom without rice: the global uprising of peasants and farmworkers
  • "No land no life": uprisings of the "landless"
  • "Agrarian reform in reverse": food crises, land grabs, and migrant labor
  • Milk with dignity
  • "Like the time of Cesar Chavez": strawberry fields, exploitation forever
  • Bitter grapes
  • "What are we rising for?"
  • "These borders are not our borders"
  • After the colonizers, RICE
  • Part V. "They said it was impossible": local victories and transformative visions
  • "We can turn around the labor movement. We can rebuild power and we can win!"
  • Flashes of hope
  • Big ideas, new models, small courtesies build a new world.

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