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Orleck, Annelise.
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Working poor -- Interviews.
Living wage movement.
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Orleck, Annelise.
Working poor -- Interviews.
Living wage movement.
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"
We
are
all
fast-food
workers
now
" : the
global
uprising
against
poverty
wages
/ Annelise Orleck.
by
Orleck, Annelise.
Beacon Press, 2018.
Call #:
331.54 O71w
Subjects
Working poor -- Interviews.
Living wage movement.
ISBN:
9780807081778 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Global
uprising
against
poverty
wages
Description:
xiii, 298 p. : black & white plates; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary:
"Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage
workers
from across the globe, “We Are
All
Fast-Food
Workers
Now” 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."--From publisher.
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