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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Note
PART I: Poverty Wages, We’re Not Lovin’ It
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: Realizing Precarity: “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”
Chapter 14: Days of Disruption, 2016
Chapter 15: The New Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 16: Counting Victories, Girding for an Uphill Struggle
Chapter 17: Huelga de Hambre: Hunger and Hunger Strikes Rising
Chapter 18: Social Movement Unionism and the Souls of Workers
Chapter 19: “Contractualization”
Chapter 20: “Stand Up, Live Better”: Organizing for Respect at Walmart
PART III: Garment Workers’ Organizing in the Age of Fast Fashion
Chapter 21: “If People Would Think About Us, We Wouldn’t Die”: Beautiful Clothes, Ugly Reality
Chapter 22: How the Rag Trade Went Global
Chapter 23: “The Girl Effect”
Chapter 24: “Made with Love in Bangladesh”
Chapter 25: “We Are Not a Pocket Revolution”: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Since Rana Plaza
Chapter 26: “A Khmer Would Rather Work for Free Than Work Without Dignity”
Chapter 27: “After Pol Pot, We Need a Good Life”
Chapter 28: Consciousness-Raising, Cambodia Style
Chapter 29: Filipina Garment Workers: Organizing in the Zone
PART IV: No Rice Without Freedom, No Freedom Without Rice
Chapter 30: “No Land No Life”: Uprisings of the “Landless,” 2017
Chapter 31: “Agrarian Reform in Reverse”: Food Crises, Land Grabs, and Migrant Labor
Chapter 32: Milk with Dignity
Chapter 33: “Like the Time of Cesar Chavez”: Strawberry Fields, Exploitation Forever
Chapter 34: Bitter Grapes
Chapter 35: “What Are We Rising For?”
Chapter 36: “These Borders Are Not Our Borders”
Chapter 37: After the Colonizers, RICE
PART V: “They Said It Was Impossible”
Chapter 38: “We Can Turn Around the Labor Movement. We Can Rebuild Power and We Can Win!”
Chapter 39: Flashes of Hope
Chapter 40: Big Ideas, New Models, Small Courtesies Build a New World
Acknowledgments
Notes
Photos
About the Author
Index
Copyright
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