We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now : The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages [Paperback]

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’S NOTE

PART I
POVERTY WAGES, WE’RE NOT LOVING IT: ROOTS AND BRANCHES OF A GLOBAL UPRISING

PROLOGUE
Brands of Wage Slavery, Marks of Labor Solidarity

CHAPTER 1
Inequality Rising

CHAPTER 2
All We’re Asking for Is a Little Respect

CHAPTER 3
“We Are Workers, Not Slaves”

CHAPTER 4
“I Consider the Union My Second Mother”

CHAPTER 5
Hotel Housekeepers Go Norma Rae

CHAPTER 6
United for Respect: OUR Walmart and the Uprising of Retail Workers

CHAPTER 7
Supersize My Wages: Fast-Food Workers and the March of History

CHAPTER 8
1911–2011: History and the Global Labor Struggle

CHAPTER 9
People Power Movements in the Twenty-First Century

CHAPTER 10
“You Can’t Dismantle Capitalism Without Dismantling Patriarchy”

CHAPTER 11
This Is What Solidarity Feels Like

PART II
THE RISING OF THE GLOBAL PRECARIAT

CHAPTER 12
Respect, Let It Go, ’Cause Baby, You’re a Firework

CHAPTER 13
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