“We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

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The story of low-wage workers rising up around the globe to demand respect and a living wage.

Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from around the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating take a look at globalization as seen throughout the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who’re 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 globe, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and riot, in addition to reflections on hope and alter because it rises from the ground up.

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