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Fisher, Andy, 1963-
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Corporations -- Charitable contributions -- United States.
Malnutrition -- Prevention -- United States.
Food relief -- United States.
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Fisher, Andy, 1963-
Corporations -- Charitable contributions -- United States.
Malnutrition -- Prevention -- United States.
Food relief -- United States.
MARC Display
Big
hunger
: the
unholy
alliance
between
corporate
America
and
anti-hunger
groups
/ Andrew Fisher ; foreword by Saru Jayaraman.
by
Fisher, Andy, 1963-
MIT Press, 2018.
Call #:
363.883 F533b
Subjects
Corporations -- Charitable contributions -- United States.
Malnutrition -- Prevention -- United States.
Food relief -- United States.
ISBN:
9780262535168 (pbk.)
Description:
xvi, 343 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Occupy
hunger
-- The charity trap -- The politics of
corporate
giving -- SNAP's identity crisis -- Economic democracy through ederal food programs -- Who's at the table shapes what's on the agenda -- Innovation within the
anti-hunger
movement -- Innovative models from outside the
anti-hunger
field.
Summary:
"Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the "emergency food system" became an industry. In
Big
Hunger
, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of
hunger
and offers a new vision for the
anti-hunger
movement. From one perspective,
anti-hunger
leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But
anti-hunger
advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on
corporate
donations of food and money,
anti-hunger
organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a "
hunger
industrial complex" that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex. Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of
hunger
characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the
anti-hunger
sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end
hunger
, not just manage it. -- From publisher.
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