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.

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.

Author: Annelise Orleck
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780807081778
ISBN10: 0807081779
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- History | Modern | 21st Century
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations

About the Author
Annelise Orleck is professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women, politics, immigration, and activism, including Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. She lives in Thetford Center, Vermont.