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 roleand exploitationof 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 systemfrom 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 towarda 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