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

by Orleck, Annelise.

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Beacon Press, 2018.

Working poor -- Interviews.

Living wage movement.

9780807081778 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Global uprising against poverty wages

xiii, 298 p. : black & white plates; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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