Will Work for Food

Labor across the Food Chain

AvLaura-Anne Minkoff-Zern,Teresa M. Mares

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:488 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520391611

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. She is the author of The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability. Teresa M. Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty of Food Systems at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents List of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations Introduction: A New Opening for Worker Justice in the Food System1 • Industrialization and Racialized Dispossession on the Farm2 • Deskilling in the Assembly Line and on the Factory Floor3 • Precarity and Deregulation in the Warehouse and on the Road4 • Consolidation and Vulnerability from the Corner Store to the Superstore5 • Intersectionality and the Fight for a Fair Wage in Food Service6 • Reproductive Labor, Gender, and Food Work in the Home7 • Value, Work, and Food Waste at the End of the LineConclusion: Working toward a Just Food Future AcknowledgmentsAppendixGlossary of TermsNotesBibliographyIndex