'We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now': The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

‘We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now’: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

The storyplot of low-wage workers rising up all over the world to demand respect and a living wage.

Tracing a fresh labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from throughout the world, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating take a look at globalization as noticed through the eye 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 full time income wage. Drawing on interviews with activists in many US metropolitan areas and countries all over the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features tales of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on wish and change since it increases from the bottom up.