Will Work for Food (eBook)

Labor across the Food Chain

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
318 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39162-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Examining the essential role—and exploitation—of frontline workers across the food chain.

Consumers are demanding a healthier and more sustainable food system. Yet labor is rarely part of the discussion. In Will Work for Food, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares chronicle labor across the food chain, connecting the entire food system—from fields to stores, restaurants, home kitchens, and even garbage dumps.

Using a political economy framework, the authors argue that improving labor standards and building solidarity among frontline workers across sectors is necessary for creating a more just food system. What would it take, they ask, to move toward a food system that is devoid of human exploitation? Combining insights from food systems and labor justice scholarship with actionable recommendations for policy makers, the book is a call to action for labor activists, food studies students and scholars, and anyone interested in food justice.

Inhalt

Contents
 
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
 
Introduction: A New Opening for Worker Justice in the Food System
1 • Industrialization and Racialized Dispossession on the Farm
2 • Deskilling in the Assembly Line and on the Factory Floor
3 • Precarity and Deregulation in the Warehouse and on the Road
4 • Consolidation and Vulnerability from the Corner Store to the Superstore
5 • Intersectionality and the Fight for a Fair Wage in Food Service
6 • Reproductive Labor, Gender, and Food Work in the Home
7 • Value, Work, and Food Waste at the End of the Line
Conclusion: Working toward a Just Food Future
 
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • back house • Cafeteria workers • Cook • dishwasher • Domestic • farm workers • Food Processing • Food Studies • grocery store • history of food system • Kitchen • labor organizing • Social Movements • sustainability issues • tools for labor activists • undocumented • Waste
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39162-4 / 0520391624
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39162-8 / 9780520391628