“As the authors of this book make clear, our food system has been built on and continues to profit from the exploitation of poor immigrant workers. Will Work for Food follows this trail of injustice from farm to plate. Without providing fair wages, a safe workplace, and a sense of dignity to the people who work hard to feed us, our food system will never be
ethical or sustainable.”

“This insightful and clearly written book offers a prescient analysis of the production of worker precarity across the food system while attending to complex intersections with race, gender, and citizenship. Most importantly, Will Work
for Food highlights the potential for systems-level, cross-sector organizing and coalition building that can broaden the political imaginaries of food and labor movements.”

“This book is a remarkable synthesis of historical and current data, interwoven with brilliant and empathetic analysis of labor across the food chain. Laura-Anne Minkoff- Zern and Teresa Mares ground the book in the firsthand experiences of people harvesting vegetables, slaughtering animals, cooking meals, ‘rescuing’ wasted food, and everything in between. The result is an invaluable and highly teachable resource, deeply engaging for students, scholars, consumers, workers, and activists eager to understand the conditions and organizing strategies of frontline food system workers.”