"We are all fast-food workers now": the global uprising against poverty wages

Part I. Poverty wages, we're not lovin' it: roots and branches of a global uprising

Brands of wage slavery, marks of labor solidarity

Inequality rising

All we're asking for is a little respect

"We are workers, not slaves"

"I consider the union my second mother"

Hotel housekeepers go Norma Rae

United for respect: OUR Walmart and the uprising of retail workers

Supersize my wages: fast-food workers and the march of history

1911-2011: history and the global labor struggle

People Power movements in the twenty-first century

"You can't dismantle capitalism without dismantling patriarchy"

This is what solidarity feels like

Part II. The rising of the global precariat

Respect, let it go, 'cause baby, you're a firework

Realizing precarity: "We are all fast-food workers now"

Days of disruption, 2016

The new civil rights movement

Counting victories, girding for an uphill struggle

Huelga de Hambre: hunger and hunger strikes rising

Social movement unionism and the souls of workers

"Contractualization"

"Stand up, live better": organizing for respect at Walmart

Part III. Garment workers' organizing in the age of fast fashion

"If people would think about us, we wouldn't die": beautiful clothes, ugly reality

How the rag trade went global

"The girl effect"

"Made with love in Bangladesh"

"We are not a pocket revolution": Bangladeshi garment workers since Rana Plaza

"A Khmer would rather work for free than work without dignity"

"After Pol Pot, we need a good life"

Consciousness-raising, Cambodia style

Filipina garment workers, organizing in the zone

Part IV. No rice without freedom, no freedom without rice: the global uprising of peasants and farmworkers

"No land no life": uprisings of the "landless"

"Agrarian reform in reverse": food crises, land grabs, and migrant labor

Milk with dignity

"Like the time of Cesar Chavez": strawberry fields exploitation forever

Bitter grapes

"What are we rising for?"

"These borders are not our borders"

After the colonizers, rICE

Part V. "They said it was impossible": local victories and transformative visions

"We can turn around the labor movement, we can rebuild power and we can win"

Flashes of hope

Big ideas, new models, small courtesies build a new world.