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.

"Will Work for Food is at once an affirmation of the workers who make up the food system and an indictment of the forces that undermine the essential value of those who keep society fed."

• 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

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.

"Will Work for Food is at once an affirmation of the workers who make up the food system and an indictment of the forces that undermine the essential value of those who keep society fed."

• 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