{"product_id":"we-are-all-fastfood-workers-now-isbn-9780807081778","title":"\"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now\"","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, \u003ci\u003e“We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.AUTHOR’S NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003ePOVERTY WAGES, WE’RE NOT LOVING IT: ROOTS AND BRANCHES OF A GLOBAL UPRISING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003eBrands of Wage Slavery, Marks of Labor Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003eInequality Rising\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003eAll We’re Asking for Is a Little Respect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003e“We Are Workers, Not Slaves”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003e“I Consider the Union My Second Mother”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003eHotel Housekeepers Go Norma Rae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003eUnited for Respect: OUR Walmart and the Uprising of Retail Workers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003eSupersize My Wages: Fast-Food Workers and the March of History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003e1911–2011: History and the Global Labor Struggle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9\u003cbr\u003ePeople Power Movements in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10\u003cbr\u003e“You Can’t Dismantle Capitalism Without Dismantling Patriarchy”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 11\u003cbr\u003eThis Is What Solidarity Feels Like\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003eTHE RISING OF THE GLOBAL PRECARIAT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 12\u003cbr\u003eRespect, Let It Go, ’Cause Baby, You’re a Firework\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 13\u003cbr\u003eRealizing Precarity: “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 14\u003cbr\u003eDays of Disruption, 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 15\u003cbr\u003eThe New Civil Rights Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 16\u003cbr\u003eCounting Victories, Girding for an Uphill Struggle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuelga de Hambre\u003c\/i\u003e: Hunger and Hunger Strikes Rising\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 18\u003cbr\u003eSocial Movement Unionism and the Souls of Workers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 19\u003cbr\u003e“Contractualization”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 20\u003cbr\u003e“Stand Up, Live Better”: Organizing for Respect at Walmart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003eGARMENT WORKERS’ ORGANIZING IN THE AGE OF FAST FASHION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 21\u003cbr\u003e“If People Would Think About Us, We Wouldn’t Die”: Beautiful Clothes, Ugly Reality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 22\u003cbr\u003eHow the Rag Trade Went Global\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 23\u003cbr\u003e“The Girl Effect”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 24\u003cbr\u003e“Made with Love in Bangladesh”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 25\u003cbr\u003e“We Are Not a Pocket Revolution”: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Since Rana Plaza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 26\u003cbr\u003e“A Khmer Would Rather Work for Free Than Work Without Dignity”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 27\u003cbr\u003e“After Pol Pot, We Need a Good Life”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 28\u003cbr\u003eConsciousness-Raising, Cambodia Style\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 29\u003cbr\u003eFilipina Garment Workers: Organizing in the Zone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV\u003cbr\u003eNO RICE WITHOUT FREEDOM, NO FREEDOM WITHOUT RICE: THE GLOBAL UPRISING OF PEASANTS AND FARMWORKERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 30\u003cbr\u003e“No Land No Life”: Uprisings of the “Landless,” 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 31\u003cbr\u003e“Agrarian Reform in Reverse”: Food Crises, Land Grabs, and Migrant Labor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 32\u003cbr\u003eMilk with Dignity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 33\u003cbr\u003e“Like the Time of Cesar Chavez”: Strawberry Fields, Exploitation Forever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 34\u003cbr\u003eBitter Grapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 35\u003cbr\u003e“What Are We Rising For?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 36\u003cbr\u003e“These Borders Are Not Our Borders”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 37\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Colonizers, RICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V\u003cbr\u003e“THEY SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE”: LOCAL VICTORIES AND TRANSFORMATIVE VISIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 38\u003cbr\u003e“We Can Turn Around the Labor Movement. We Can Rebuild Power and We Can Win!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 39\u003cbr\u003eFlashes of Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 40\u003cbr\u003eBig Ideas, New Models, Small Courtesies Build a New World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003eNOTES\u003cbr\u003eINDEX“This is a well-documented introduction to unionization efforts by often marginalized, behind-the-scenes workers.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful, sobering, and timely, this is a much-needed global examination of poverty wages.”—\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stunning in its breadth and impact, filled with vivid characters from many countries who speak in as many languages, the book is an epic achievement—it shows us globalization from the perspective of the people who do its work.”—Linda Gordon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming of the KKK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With common sense and a lot of fire, low-wage workers across the globe are building social movements. Crafted with \u003ci\u003ecorazón\u003c\/i\u003e, this book is a crisply paced, panoramic labor history of the here and now.”—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Out of the Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vivid rendering of the human impact of free trade policies and neoliberal restructuring across the globe. Annelise Orleck tells the stories of members of the global ‘precariat’ in the Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh, the US, and elsewhere, and their struggles for a living wage. A welcome addition to courses on social inequalities, social movements, and social change, it will shift how students see the hamburgers they eat and the clothes they wear.”—Professor Arlene Stein, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Annelise Orleck takes us on an inspiring journey across Asia, the Americas, and Europe into the world of low-wage organizing. With an ethnographer’s eye, historian’s perspective, and activist’s passion, she not merely charts the precariousness of work under a rapacious capitalism but captures the power of protest to transform lives. A must for classes in Labor, Globalization, and Gender.”—Professor Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Essential reading for any law student or legal professional seeking to harness law in service of social justice. As she illuminates the precarity uniting workers around the globe, Orleck calls out the laws and legal structures that have failed them, while also highlighting creative legal strategies for demanding dignity and basic security.”—Professor Karen Tani, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful and urgent history-of-the-present. I often struggle with finding powerful and evocative treatments of contemporary social movements that measure up to the riveting, richly contextualized histories we have for the civil rights era. This book does that—and embeds US struggles in a global movement for anti-poverty wages and humane conditions.”—Professor Jeanne Theoharis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and author of \u003ci\u003eA More Beautiful and Terrible History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Annelise Orleck skillfully weaves an inspiring global narrative of protest, coalition and empowerment—a narrative essential to students of oral history, testimony and witness, and activism in the face of a global economy of indifference and disposability. This is a model of engaged scholarship, empathic and respectful toward its subjects, enabling to its readers.”—Professor Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bursting with the heartrending voices of the precariat…this book captures the unspeakably inhumane working conditions and courageous determination driving the global uprisings against unrestrained capitalism. A must read for students of history, women and feminist studies, class and labor, race and ethnicity, and international studies, it is a twenty-first-century grassroots primer for social justice organizing, and a clarion call to exalt human beings over the insatiable hungry ghosts of profit and consumption.”—Rhonda Y. Williams, author of \u003ci\u003eConcrete Demands \u003c\/i\u003eand Professor and John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History, Vanderbilt University\u003cb\u003eAnnelise Orleck\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women, politics, immigration, and activism, including \u003ci\u003eStorming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Thetford Center, Vermont.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304186630373,"sku":"NP9780807081778","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807081778.jpg?v=1767743655","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/we-are-all-fastfood-workers-now-isbn-9780807081778","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}